The Surgeon

Studies prove that mammography saves lives. The screening tool can detect breast cancer early when it’s still curable. But for the thousands of women with dense breast tissue, mammography is not enough. These women may need additional screening tests such as MRI‘s. Now, researchers at Mayo Clinic have developed new technology that can spot breast tumors in dense tissue at a fraction of the cost of MRI’s.

An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said.