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Sunday, April 18, 2004 Spotlight on Breast Cancer Research: Cutting to the Core of the Issue

Currently, surgeons rely on where a radiologist has preoperatively placed a blob of dye or a fine wire to know where a tumour is and where to cut. However, this does not give a clear picture as to exactly where the edge of the tumour is. Dr. Claire Holloway wants to use imaging modalities to plan and guide the surgery in real-time instead.

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Sunday, April 18, 2004 Spotlight on Breast Cancer Research: Screening for Breast Cancer - An Exposé

Mammography and clinical breast exams: useful tumour-detecting techniques

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Sunday, April 18, 2004 Spotlight on Breast Cancer Research: Let's Get Digital

Dr. Martin Yaffe, working with Dr. Roberta Jong, published the first results showing that contrast-enhanced digital mammography could "see" breast cancer tumours that regular film mammography sometimes misses.

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Sunday, April 18, 2004 Spotlight on Breast Cancer Research: Aiming for a Biological Bull's-Eye

Treatments like chemotherapy and drugs are having a real impact but they are far from being targeted and effective for women at all stages of breast cancer. Through Dr. Arun Seth's work in genomics, he is trying to solve these problems.

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Sunday, April 18, 2004 At the Brink

In 2041, 10 million Canadians will be aged 65 and over. With this aging explosion will come a surge in the number of people living with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other dementias, and the cognitive aftershocks of stroke. This pushes neurosciences researchers Drs. Sandra Black and Simon Graham to test relentlessly the edge of possibility in their work.

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