In her TEDWomen talk, Deborah Rhodes, a physician and researcher at the Mayo Clinic, describes a new technique for screening women for breast tumors, and how innovation can proceed by tailoring the test to individual characteristics — in the case of Rhodes’ MBI, based on the tissue density — and also about the politics that gets in the way of making those innovations. We caught up with her by phone to talk more about the politics of breast cancer and innovation. (This is Part One of our interview; Dr. Rhodes went on to talk about her work at the Panzi Hospital, which serves victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and we felt it deserved a full interview of its own. Watch for that interview posting tomorrow.)
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