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Breastlight is a breast screening product for women with the help of which they can find early symptoms and more details about breast cancer awareness.

Breastlight is a product that allows you to see inside your breasts. It works by shining a powerful light through the breast tissue. It is completely safe and easy to use. Over 80% of women have told us they feel more confident when using Breastlight as part of their breast awareness routine.

It is a bare fact that women who perform regular breast check diagnose 90 % of breast masses as they develop and almost 80 % of the lumps proved to be benign while rest of the 20 % lumps are cancerous. Earlier breast cancer is diagnosed the better are the chances of effective treatment so for this reason regular self checking of breasts should be made the crucial part of health care routine.

The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence has recommended that surgeons working in hospitals with limited or no access to a radiopharmacy department could now use Magtrace and Sentimag as an option to locate sentinel lymph nodes in people with breast cancer. The recommendation in draft NICE medical technology guidance could see a change in NHS standard care for the first time in years. The technology could also mitigate the reliance on radioactive isotope tracers shipped in from outside Great Britain. The magnetic liquid tracer - Magtrace - is a non-radioactive dark brown liquid. It is both a magnetic marker and a visual dye. The Magtrace is injected into the tissue around a tumour. The particles are then absorbed into the lymphatic system, following the route that cancer cells are most likely to take when they spread from the primary tumour and become trapped in sentinel lymph nodes. The Sentimag probe moves over the skin emitting sounds of different pitches as it passes over the Magtrace tracer, in a similar way to a metal detector locating metal in the ground. The nodes often appear dark brown or black in colour, which also helps with identification.