{"id":6790,"date":"2019-05-31T20:28:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T20:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=248822"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:12","slug":"teens-innovative-smart-armour-protects-breast-cancer-patients-from-radiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/teens-innovative-smart-armour-protects-breast-cancer-patients-from-radiation\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen\u2019s Innovative \u201cSMART Armour\u201d Protects Breast Cancer Patients from Radiation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Macinley Butson<\/a> has been an inventor since she was just seven years old, but this is the first time she says something she\u2019s invented has felt like it could really get out to the market and help a lot of people. What the Australian student has invented at the young age of 18 is a type of protective barrier against harmful excess radiation during radiation treatment for breast cancer.<\/span>\u201cThis idea for SMART Armour just started as a conversation at the dinner table,\u201d says Macinley. \u201cDad works in the field, and he mentioned that women who are undergoing radiotherapy breast cancer treatment do get some radiation delivered to the other breast. This is an incredibly important and imperative treatment\u2014and I wanted to improve it to aid their outcomes however I could.\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube<\/span>The project truly became personal, however, when a family member passed away from cancer. Macinley knew that she needed to do something to help make a difference for women who are suffering from breast cancer.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube<\/span>Macinley began researching the issue and trying out prototypes of different designs to find the perfect way to shield women from excess radiation. She read medical journals, watched YouTube videos, and tinkered around with raw materials as she attempted to learn as much as she could about her subject. Through meticulous research, she found out some key information, including that copper is actually more effective than lead at shielding against radiation, despite lead\u2019s fame in the industry.<\/span>What Macinley came up with in the end was a flexible armor modeled after traditional scale mail patters. The armor is handmade from high-density copper<\/a>, which has been shown to be more effective than other metals against radiation, and it can fit any body shape for maximum coverage and protection.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube<\/span>Macinley\u2019s design, which she calls \u201cSMART Armour<\/a>\u201d (Scale Maille Armour for Radiation Therapy), is placed on the contralateral breast\u2014the one not receiving treatment\u2014and can reduce radiation entering the body by up to 75 percent. It helps keep patients\u2019 skin from burning during radiation treatment, which alleviates pain for the patient, helps the patient be able to do their full treatment plan without a break to heal their skin, and lessens the risk of the patient developing another type of cancer in the future. Plus, it can boost patient morale; who wouldn\u2019t feel like a powerful warrior princess while wearing something like this?<\/span>Since she\u2019s finished her project, Macinley has been named 2018 NSW Young Australian of the Year<\/a>, as well as New Gen Innovator at the Women of Style Awards. She has been working on finding hospitals willing to trial her invention with their radiation patients.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube<\/span>\u201cWe\u2019re happy to donate the SMART Armour to any hospital who\u2019s willing to pick it up and run testing on it,\u201d says Macinley. \u201cThere\u2019s a principle in radiotherapy called the ALARA principle, which stands for As Little As Reasonably Achievable. So anything that\u2019s going to aid in radiation therapy to reduce any excess is going to help. So we\u2019re willing to donate this to hospitals who are willing to give it a go.\u201d<\/span>We hope Macinley\u2019s story inspires people everywhere, no matter how old or young, to continue looking for the brilliant solutions that are sometimes right in front of our faces. This product is sure to change the lives of millions for years to come!<\/span>Check out the video below to learn more about Macinley and her amazing invention!<\/span>Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span>Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Macinley Butson has been an inventor since she was just seven years old, but this is the first time she says something she\u2019s invented has felt like it could really get out to the market and help a lot of people. What the Australian student has invented at the young age of 18 is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44497,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions\/44497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}