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To: jwk who wrote (4025)	1/28/2000 12:03:00 AM
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HUGE NEWS after the bell from Canada! Laser offers alternative to mammogram for detecting breast cancer Thu Jan 27 17:09:00 EST 2000 TORONTO, Jan 27, 2000 (The Canadian Press via COMTEX) -- Mammograms may soon be replaced by laser technology to detect breast cancer. A Toronto company, Cycle of Life Technologies, has landed a distribution deal with the American developers of a new laser mammography system. However, the technology, which takes mammograms without compression or radiation, still needs regulatory approval in the United States and Canada. ``The clarity is tenfold more (than traditional mammography),' said company president Lee-Anne Gibbs. And where traditional mammography only reads the sections of the breast the machine can squeeze, the laser system reads the entire breast including the upper quadrant, which includes the lymph nodes, Gibbs said. Cancer cells are highlighted on the screen, eliminating the need for a biopsy in almost all cases. And results are available faster, since no radiologist is required to read results, which are stored on a CD-ROM and can go directly to the doctor, she said. ``You know instantaneously this way (if there are any cancer cells),' she added. ``There's no more discomfort (and) no more indignity.' Women lie on a scanning bed and place a breast in a chamber. The laser rotates 360 degrees around the breast, collecting data until the entire breast is scanned. Clinical trials are being conducted in Long Island, N.Y., and Virginia. The studies will look at patients with specific abnormalities and compare the laser results with current imaging methods, such as X-ray mammograms, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging. For approval, results have to be the same as or better than traditional mammography. ``Ours will also read through cosmetic surgery if there's leakage traditional doesn't do it,' Gibbs said. And, if all goes as expected, the technology will also be used to detect prostate cancer. Gibbs' company has sole distribution rights for Canada, the Middle East, South America, eastern Europe, South Africa and several western European countries. A Florida-based company, Imaging Diagnostic Systems Inc., developed the technology. (Toronto Star) Copyright (c) 1999 The Canadian Press (CP), All rights reserved.