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AIIMS doctors develop ₹100 kit to detect cervical cancer in two hours
The Morning Standard
|August 27, 2025
DOCTORS at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) have developed a low-cost diagnostic kit that can detect cervical cancer within two hours, a breakthrough that promises to revolutionise screening for one of the deadliest cancers in women.
Unlike conventional tests that require machines worth lakhs of rupees and take several days to deliver results, the new nanotechnology-based visual kit has been priced at under ₹100.
The innovation has been led by Dr Subhash Chandra Yadav, Additional Professor at the Electron and Microscope Facility, Department of Anatomy, along with Dr Neerja Bhatla, former Head of the Department of Gynecology, and researchers Jyoti Meena, Shikha Chaudhary, and Pranay Tanwar. The team said the kit has already been tested on 400 patients and has shown "100 per cent accuracy."
This story is from the August 27, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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