How blind people are helping to diagnose breast cancer through touch

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Kanetzki is a trained medical tactile examiner (MTE) and has been working in breast cancer screening for years. Photos: Kristin Schmidt/dpa

Christine Kanetzki takes almost an hour to check the patient for breast cancer.

She gently feels each centimetre of her breasts and the lymph nodes under her arms, on her neck and near her collarbone.

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