Problem
Melanoma, also known as skin cancer, is the deadliest form of cancer that is typically caused from ultraviolet radiation that causes genetic mutations and unhealthy increased cell division. more and more people are diagnosed and die due to this harmful disease.
Solution
In an effort to deter this disease, MelaNOmore was created. Infrared technology, coupled with a cooling lotion will be able to easily detect these differences and thus distinguish malignant moles on the skin from normal tissue.
Breakthroughs necessary for our solution
Painless cooling technology
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This lotion would include ingredients such as super moisturizer, and caster oil (which has a freezing point of about 14 degrees Fahrenheit) allowing the lotion to be refrigerated at lower temperatures than water without causing it to freeze.
more precise thermography
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Smaller lesions on the body would have less of a temperature change as compared to big lesions that would have probably been noticed and tested for cancer already
Less costly thermography
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Thermography would need to become more cost efficient in order for Melanomore to become a reality and to allow doctors to use the thermography on lesions that could be suspected of melanoma.
Melanomore
