The new gadget detects magnetised liquid injected into the tissue around the cancer.
A noisy gadget that works in a similar way to a metal detector is being recommended in draft guidance for the NHS to help spot and treat breast cancer that may have spread.
It tracks the fluid's journey - bleeping as it moves over the skin - to show where cancer may have seeded.The draft recommendationCurrently, some hospitals use a harmless radioactive dye injection and a scan instead, but this is not universally available.Jeanette Kusel, acting director for MedTech and digital at NICE, explained: "People with breast cancer want to know if their cancer has been isolated or has spread to the rest of their body.
Magtrace also stains the lymph nodes dark brown, which helps with identification when doctors do a biopsy. Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said: "This promising research could provide a new tool for our scientists to track and slow the spread of breast cancer, the most common cancer in the UK.
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