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Podcast: Late Night Health Radio
Episode: New Tech Used to Find Breast Cancer Part 2
Description: Today, mammography is a woman's best defense when it comes to detecting breast cancer at its earliest.The technology has saved countless lives, but it's not fool-proof. Radiologists are the doctors who specialize in reading the breast images taken during a mammography screening.And depending on breast density, the pictures don't always tell the whole story.Kevin Harris, CEO and founder of CureMetrix says, "Finding tumors on mammogram images in dense breast tissue can be like finding a polar bear on an ice cap."