Salomon Develops Mammography.

Breast cancer has been the focus of medical research for more than a century, but at the end of the nineteenth century, techniques for detection were almost nonexistent. By the time breast cancer was detected, it was often too late for the radical surgical procedures prevalent at the time, and patients who underwent such surgery had a high mortality rate. As a result, cancer researchers were eager to experiment with X-ray technology after it appeared in 1896.