NOW a breath can tell about BREAST CANCER!!

The Breath Link kit is being developed by a US firm and is already on sale in Europe. It begins with a woman breathing for two minutes into a breathalyser.

The air is fed into a machine which analyses the levels of chemicals. The results are crunched by a computer, which determines whether the chemical pattern is a sign of breast cancer.

Research published in the journal PLoS ONE shows it to be at least as accurate as mammograms. Michael Phillips, a professor of medicine at New York Medical College, and the brains behind the breath test, said: 'We know that if you get a negative result on the breast test, there is a better than 99.9 per cent chance that a woman doesn't have breast cancer.