Gurgaon: The Medicity, a multi-speciality institute located in Gurgaon, Wednesday introduced the 'scar free breast biopsy' treatment, which ensures 99 per cent scar free detection and removal of breast cancer tumour, for the first time in India.
The new technology makes early diagnosis possible and saves women from breast amputation and other causalities related to cancer.
Naresh Trehan, Founder and Chairman, Medanta - The Medicity,?said, "We are proud to bring yet another ground breaking technology to India that relieves 49 per cent of our population from the fear of after-effects of the breast cancer detection process. Women in India now have access to the international grade technology that delivers scar free detection and treatment of breast cancer".
Also known as MRI guided Vacuum Assisted Breast Biopsy (VABB), the technology is a "generational leap" over the earlier technology. It offers very early diagnosis of really small abnormalities (as small as 1-2mm) not visualised on ultrasound or mammography and only visible on MRI, he added.
The World Health Organization has?predicted that by 2020, one in eight urban Indian women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. Presently, one in four female cancer cases are breast cancers.
"This alarming rate has led a scare among many women, while detection at an early stage was not possible till date as there was no equipment to reliably sample and hence diagnose small abnormalities spotted on the breast MRI," according to a release from the hospital.
