Breast cancer is the most common type of female cancer and the number two cancer killer in US women. Treatment options continue to expand and researchers are making steady advancements in cancer detection that they hope will one day enable most breast cancer cases to be diagnosed an an early, very curable stage.

In two dramatically different surgical markets, new technologies promise to improve visual access to difficult-to-reach places in the body. The first market builds on improvements in endoscopy, the second is driven by advances in diagnostic imaging.