Assertion certainty 4/5 debate potential 2/5

Every clinician who tested Niramai's screening tool has purchased it

Dr. Geetha Manjunath · Dr. Geetha Manjunath on building Niramai, the most affordable product for breast cancer detection · Feb 18, 2021 · at 41:11

Dr. Geetha Manjunath, founder and CEO of Niramai, explains how conducting blind clinical trials for skeptical doctors consistently converts them into paying customers.

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“Anyone who has tested actually sort of gone ahead and bought the solution.”

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Assertion Contradicted
Mammography fails for women under 45 due to dense breast tissue
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Assertion Partly supported
Niramai's thermal tech works on all ages and men regardless of density
“It does work on women of all age groups because it does not depend on density. It just depends on body temperature and which all of us have similar. It does work on male as well, not just for women.”
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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Niramai's thermal tech can be applied to detect other cancers
“It's a technology that we have developed and can be used for several other types of cancers because all other types of cancers or many, many Of those also depict a similar thermal signature that we can find too. So not just for cancer as well, this can be used…”
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Assertion Supported
Mammography is the only test proven to increase survival rates
“And actually it's one of in fact, it's the only test which is proven to increase you know, increase the survival rates of women in terms of, you know, really large clinical trials and so on.”
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Assertion Supported
Niramai's automated rural triage screening costs just 100 INR per test
“And so, so this, ah, is, this is almost hundred rupees per test, assuming the hardware is covered.”
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Assertion Supported
Manjunath: Breast cancer kills 90,000 in India and 600,000 globally each year
“Here is a problem which is taking away 90,000 lives in India alone and more than 600,000 lives around the world when breast cancer is a completely curable type of cancer, right?”
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