North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust is offering the new procedure to aid the surgeons in identifying very small breast cancers prior to surgical removal.<br /><br />North Tees Breast Screening Unit can identify cancers so small there is no lump or other visible signs. Traditionally, a thin piece of metal wire was inserted into the breast on the day of the operation which the surgeon followed as a guide-line to the location of the tumour.
