Deborah Rhodes: A tool that finds 3x more breast tumors, and why it's not available to you (TED)

Original website : TED.com
http://www.ted.com/talks/deborah_rhodes.html

About this talk :
Working with a team of physicists, Dr. Deborah Rhodes developed a new tool for tumor detection that's 3 times as effective as traditional mammograms for women with dense breast tissue. The life-saving implications are stunning. So why haven't we heard of it? Rhodes shares the story behind the tool's creation, and the web of politics and economics that keep it from mainstream use.
About Deborah Rhodes
Deborah Rhodes is an expert at managing breast-cancer risk. The director of the Mayo Clinic's Executive Health Program is now testing a gamma camera that can see tumors that get missed by mammography.


Full biography :
http://www.ted.com/speakers/deborah_rhodes.html

External links : * Cancer Imaging Program : http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/imaging%5Fprogram/ * Women's Cancer Program : http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/womens%5Fcancer/

Video source file :
http://video.ted.com/talks/podcast/DeborahRhodes_2010W_480.mp4

Under Creative Commons License : Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported
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