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Demo of Procedure for Staging, Treating Breast Cancer

Caption: Physicist Audrius Brazdeikis, right, head of the Biomedical Imaging Group at the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston, confers with London surgeon Dr. Michael Douek about a unique procedure for staging and treating breast cancer. UH and University College of London teams developed a probe to enable surgeons to better detect the spread of breast cancer, and Douek is conducting a clinical trial of the device in England.

Credit: Mark Lacy

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