A Spit Can Save Your Life

Scientists have discovered a New Saliva Test that may help diagnose breast cancer.

I read in a medical journal that, "Mixed with substances from the bloodstream and the gastric and respiratory tracts, spit becomes a cocktail of bodily fluids. It contains proteins, hormones, viruses and billions of bacteria that can be used to detect everything from cystic fibrosis to AIDs."

It's safe, non-invasive and dentists can help with the diagnosis. And, hopefully, within the next ten years this technology will be in place.

This is perfect for women who've had double mastectomies and no longer have the use of mammography to aid detection; it's a great fear of mine and other women without breast tissue that cancer might grow on the chest wall or elsewhere in the body and remain undetected now that mammography isn't an option.

This new test? Worth all the spitting in the world if it saves just one life.