University of Bolton Center for Research and Innovation Director Elias Siores recently claimed that his team is on its way to perfecting a smart bra prototype that should help detect breast cancer even at its most early stage.

And even just for the effort, this team should be awarded by a Nobel prize or something. Kidding aside, the scientific concept behind the smart bra is thermography. What Siores and his team did was put a series of microwave antennae inside the underwear garment to detect temperature changes in the breast.

Aside from this, thermography is currently being used to detect the location of submarines and distant stars. As much as this could prove to be an important scientific breakthrough, some physicians are doubtful if thermography can be effective in detecting breast cancer.

Philadelphia's Thomas Jefferson University Hospital breast surgeon Anne Rosenberg had this to say:

This technique of using the microwave antennae to pick up and record temperature changes in the breast, with an alarm if the threshold is exceeded, would need to be validated in a clinical trial to determine whether it is sensitive or specific with regard to identifying cancers since not all of these temperature changes will be due to a cancer.