Ultrasound smartphone gadget helped a doctor diagnose his own cancer

A 59-year-old specialist analyzed his own particular stage four growth the previous summer with the assistance of his iPhone, as per MIT Technology Review. 

Dr John Martin, who functions as a vascular specialist, was trying a handheld ultrasound machine Butterfly iQ, which associates with an iPhone. Dr Martin chose to check his own particular neck with the assistance of the gadget since he felt a mass in his throat. 

The outcomes uncovered that he had metastatic growth, which had spread to his neck from his tongue and throat. 

In the wake of diagnosing the malignancy, Martin has experienced a five-and-a-half-hour surgery and radiation treatment decreasing the tumor to arrange three at this point. 

Talking about the gadget, Martin stated: "To take a gander at this as only a ultrasound gadget resembles taking a gander at an iPhone and saying it's only a telephone." 

He included, "On the off chance that you have a window into the body where anybody can manage the cost of it, everybody can utilize it, and everybody can decipher it, it turns into a hell of significantly more than a ultrasound gadget." 

The gadget called the Butterfly IQ, is the primary strong state ultrasound machine to achieve the market in the US Ultrasound works by shooting sound into the body and catching the echoes.