Doctor 'predicts death' with new invention that gives terminal patients exact time

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invention to predict the exact time of death.Doctor Séamus Coyle says he has developed a model to predict the time when lung cancer patients will die.The 53-year-old from Liverpool now wants to develop tests so that the families of terminal patients will be able to say a proper goodbye to their loved ones. READ MORE: What is the 'feared' Project Blue Beam and why aliens and NASA could be involved The consultant in palliative medicine at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, originally specialised in oncology - cancer care.The doctor is now taking efforts to share his expert knowledge to help patients and families better understand symptoms. "They don't get a chance to say goodbye and that's really important.

People live with that kind of guilt for the rest of their life", he said, as reported by the Liverpool Echo. "But imagine you had something that says, 'Actually, you're shutting down, your family needs to be here'."Dr Coyle has worked for years with cancer patients but he has never quite been able to figure out accurately when patients would die.He said: "Despite decades of cancer research and 5,000 years of medicine, we do not know how cancer kills and predicting when someone dies of lung cancer is largely down to the judgement of a clinician as there is no accurate test available to determine this."What happens is people become unwell, the GP says 'It might be an infection, we'll give them antibiotics'."They're brought in, they're really unwell, their symptoms are worse, and there's that period of uncertainty.""You go, 'It might be an infection, we don't know what's going on, we think they're unwell, they could be dying, they could be in the last weeks of life'.