A British hospital is the first in the world to use a sponge on a string to detect oesophageal cancer in a Covid-safe way.
It allows health workers to collect cell samples from the food pipe without the need for an endoscopy, biopsy or sedation.
Endoscopies, which involve passing a thin tube containing a camera and light into the body, were suspended during the pandemic because they can cause the virus to be sprayed into the air.
But University College London Hospital continued to assess patients by switching to the pioneering Cytosponge.
It will now be the hospital s usual standard of care after proving quicker, cheaper and more effective at detecting disease.
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