Heat-cam exhibit alerts tourist to breast cancer

Thermal cameras are sometimes used to screen patients for breast cancer, are not as effective in spotting tumours as mammograms, a type of X-Ray. [AFP]

A tourist discovered she had breast cancer after an interactive heat-cam exhibit revealed a tumour during a family trip to a museum in Edinburgh.

Bal Gill, 41, caught the disease in its early stages following her visit to the Camera Obscura attraction in May, which prompted her to consult a doctor.