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Tiny magnet could help patients avoid the need for second breast cancer surgery by making operations more precise Most women diagnosed with breast cancer have surgery to remove it. A new technique being trialled aims to make operations more precise.  Samantha Matthews, 48, a head of university admissions from Surrey, was one of the first

How do you remove a magnet stuck in a 9-year-old girl’s lung? Doctors settled on the novel method of using a stronger magnet to slide it out! A girl in Mangalore, India, went to hospital with an inch-long magnet in her lung  She had swallowed the small piece of metal while playing with her sister