Best of Breast: news for week ending 3 October 2014

News for the week ending 3 October 2014, for breast cancer, selected from Google Alerts.

The only items that got me excited this week are (1) a new gizmo that combines both MRI and robotics, allowing a biopsy to be taken with more accuracy while in an MRI scanner (I wonder how this is going to be done – I assume the needle must be non-magnetic?) and (2) a breast cancer vaccine trial in Australia – lucky Australians!  Currently the only breast cancer immunotherapy trials in the UK are for Her-2 positive breast cancer.

http://www.cbc.ca/video/swf/UberPlayer.swf?state=sharevideo&clipId=2540128021&width=480&height=322

1.  Image-guided robotics to perform biopsies in MRI scanners