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But she asked me a question: how confident was I that I would find a tumor early on her mammogram if she developed one?

So I studied her mammogram, and I reviewed the radiology literature, and I was shocked to discover that, in her case, our chances of finding a tumor early on the mammogram were less than the toss of a coin.

So it's easy to see this tumor in the upper part of this fatty breast.

But imagine how difficult it would be to find that tumor in this dense breast.

But this technology could not find tumors when they're small, and finding a small tumor is critical for survival.

If you can find a tumor when it's less than a centimeter, survival exceeds 90 percent, but drops off rapidly as tumor size increases.

But using our new detector, we could begin to see the outline of a tumor.

The duct tape is gone, and we added a second detector on top of the breast, which has further improved our tumor detection.

The patient receives an injection of a radio tracer that's taken up by rapidly proliferating tumor cells, but not by normal cells, and this is the key difference from mammography.

Mammography relies on differences in the appearance of the tumor from the background tissue, and we've seen that those differences can be obscured in a dense breast.

You can see, on the right, a mammogram showing a faint tumor, the edges of which are blurred by the dense tissue.

But the MBI image shows that tumor much more clearly, as well as a second tumor, which profoundly influence that patient's surgical options.

The digital mammogram was read as normal and shows lots of dense tissue, but the MBI shows an area of intense uptake, which correlated with a two-centimeter tumor.

In this case, a one-centimeter tumor.

And this corresponded to a tumor the size of a golf ball.

But I suspect even the non-radiologists in the room can find the tumor on the MBI image.

Maybe even find a tumor, in some cases.

"The tumor in your leg is not consistent with a benign tumor."

Here's a classic example: Rebecca has a benign blood vessel tumor that's growing out through her skull, has obliterated her nose, and she's having difficulty seeing.

This is a little Bangladeshi girl from the east end of London who's got a huge malignant tumor on the right side of her face, which has already made her blind and which is rapidly growing and is going to kill her shortly.

After she had surgery to remove the tumor, her parents dressed her in this beautiful green velvet dress, a pink ribbon in her hair, and they wanted the painting to be shown around the world, despite the fact that they were orthodox Muslims and the mother wore a full burqa.

When their kids were five and two, Carol had a stroke and a brain tumor and died suddenly.

It's the symptom of a tumor or an infection or an inflammation or an operation.

So the surgeon can see inside the patient, through their lens, where the tumor is, where the blood vessels are.

The cancer stem cells remain, and the tumor can return months or years later.

We're entering the era of personalized oncology, the ability to leverage all of this data together, analyze the tumor and come up with a real, specific cocktail for the individual patient.

A cancer, a tumor, is something you grow out of your own tissue.

Me being me, I put the numbers from my hospital's website, for my tumor sizes, into a spreadsheet.

And look at how the tumor sizes plummeted in between.

And the first thing that makes me think is that blood vessels are like highways for the tumor cells.

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