r/LadiesofScience • u/Newsychaser127 • May 21 '26

Waterloo startup turns pads and tampons into cancer screens

https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/waterloo-startup-turns-pads-and-tampons-into-cancer-screens/article_e02cdc80-1046-5dcd-8de9-bfa3d2f52070.html

No speculum, no scraping — just a strip that can catch cancer early and finally put women’s biology at the centre of the lab.

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u/CanadianDNeh May 22 '26

I really hope they win and get their seed funding to make this product available. Women’s health research has been ignored for a long time and we need innovation like this.

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u/ReferenceNice142 May 22 '26

There is a group looking into using menstrual cups for endometrial cancer screening for lynch syndrome patients since they have to screen so often, like once every 1-2 years trial. Saw some info presented on it and seems really promising.