The UK's Daily Mail has published an incredible news story featuring a surgical procedure that cuts out tumors so quickly that it allows women to undergo breast surgery to remove breast lumps during their lunch break. According to an explanation of how this works, in a procedure that lasts at the longest 30 minutes -- using a machine called Soros -- a small incision is made (that heals quickly and leaves no scar); the lump is sliced up into tiny pieces and vacuumed out of the body; and the woman has time left over to presumably have lunch.
This high-tech procedure is currently in clinical trials at the Princess Grace Hospital in London, and is expected to be used in the surgical removal of both benign and malignant tumors up to three centimeters in size. For a detailed step-by-step description, read Breast cancer surgery in your lunch break.
