Spanish engineer Judit Giró Benet has won the 2020 international James Dyson Award for her design The Blue Box, which enables women to test themselves for breast cancer at home using a urine sample.
The Blue Box ? which has not yet been painted blue as it is currently in the prototype phase ? is an at-home, biomedical breast cancer testing device that uses a urine sample and an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to detect early signs of the disease.
Benet designed the kit with the aim of offering women a more accessible and less invasive way of getting tested for breast cancer, which typically requires them to attend hospitals or medical facilities for a mammogram.
Judit Giró Benet won the 2020 international James Dyson Award with The Blue Box This procedure can be painful and often costly. Due to this, Benet explains that an estimated 40 per cent of women skip their screening, resulting in one in three cases being detected late.
More recently, the coronavirus pandemic has led to nearly one million women missing their breast screening, according to charity Breast Cancer Now.
Inspired by Benet's mother, who was previously diagnosed with breast cancer, The Blue Box test could be used at home as a non-invasive, pain-free, low-cost alternative to hospital mammograms.
The design enables women to test themselves for breast cancer at home using a urine sample
The device's technology is based on Blat, a dog that was able to detect lung cancer by smelling its owner's breath.
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