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Posts Tagged ‘Surgery’
Cancer Surgeon to Lead NIH
When CapeRay was still in its infancy at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Kit Vaughan and Tania Douglas were […]
Live Grenade in Soldier’s Chest
For almost a year now, the world has watched as Ukraine, led by the indomitable Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has fought to […]
Watching Breast Cancer Cells Form
Imagine if it was possible for a surgeon, when operating on a patient with breast cancer, to insert a microscope […]
Breast Cancer and Spinal Deformity
After the early detection of breast cancer, many women have benefited from extended survival following treatment. There is therefore a […]
Bioengineering Can Do It!
Ralph Weissleder (seen right, © Wikipedia), who is a professor of systems biology at Harvard and a specialist in interventional radiology, […]
New Director for National Cancer Institute
Fifteen years ago, when CapeRay was still being incubated within the University of Cape Town (UCT), we were awarded a […]
Reducing Breast Cancer Deaths in Low-Income Countries
Each year, 2.3 million women worldwide are diagnosed with breast cancer, while there are 685,000 deaths. Two-thirds of these deaths occur in middle- and […]
A Tutorial on Breast Masses
Yesterday saw the online publication in JAMA Network of a tutorial entitled “Breast masses in biological females.” Published by the […]
Turning Cancer on Itself
Fifteen years ago, Samuel Mazin was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University, studying the inverse geometry of computer tomographic (CT) systems. He […]