Can you Detect Cancer by Squishing your Hand? – Home Science
Channel: UCL Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
Date: 2020-07-02

Research Assistant Jakub Zalesak explains how measuring the squishiness of human skin can help identify cancerous tumours that may need removing by surgeons to treat patients. 

**The 'Home Science' series was a short course on digital science communication for research, taking staff and students through the essentials of science communication and video creation for the public. This is a pilot video created during the course, which was submitted for feedback during the sessions.

Home Science was led by science communication training providers Sarah Cosgriff and Duncan Yellowlees, funded by the Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences.**

We are aware that the video uses a gendered definition of doctor, this is something we always advise against and have fed back to avoid in future.