A new technology is helping make breast cancer surgeries less invasive at Bluewater Health.

A new technology is helping make breast cancer surgeries less invasive at Bluewater Health, the Sarnia-Lambton hospital group’s head of diagnostic imaging says.

Savi Scout, a technology that includes implanting a seed-sized, nickel-titanium reflector at lesion sites, means patients being prepped for surgery no longer have to have their lesions marked with wires, said Dr. Youssef Almalki.

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Having metal wires hooked into cancerous lesions, and protruding through the skin, showing surgeons where to cut, was the old way of doing things, he said.

With Savi Scout, the alloy – which is not radioactive and doesn’t emit magnetic waves – is typically injected at the time of biopsy, he s

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