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rest. here's kiera phillips. >> reporter: morgan and her story have a lot in common. loving california moms raising their sons on their own. >> definitely consider myself a mama's boy. >> oh. >> when the two found troubling lumps in their breasts they turned to the same kind of tests. >> they said it can detect disease in advance even before it happens. >> it's called thermographythery it measures heat patterns and track flood flow. some add indicates say it can do much more than that, like identify the precursors of breast cancer. >> the new mammography. >> some practitioners say they

make it clear it's not stand-alone test. but morgan says she didn't notice that in the fine print. >> come on. >> after finding a lump in her breast in 2012, she was in denial and hoping to deal with it naturally. she went to thermal imaging center operating by a choir tractor dr. melvin, and his partner. they tout it as a potentially life saving life safer. >> dr. melvin came in and said are you sure you have a lump? he said i don't veterans day any. >> she had what they called a mild to moderate risk. melvin recommended exercises and cleanse. and recommended she come back in three months. >> moern returned four months

later. her symptoms had become dramatically worse. >> all of a sudden, i'm such a fool. why did i even come here. she refused another set of scans. unemployed and uninsured she says it took seven months to get in for a biopsy. her diagnosis, stage three brrch. >> it affected everything. >> how did you get through? >> i guess i'm stronger than i thought. >> it says it's far more efficient at detecting cancer. >> i don't know of a credible resource would say it's adequate to save lives. >> the fda state patients who under go a them og fi test alone

should not commend on it. it has not be shown to be effective for either breast cancer screening or diagnosis in detecting early stage breast cancer. >> i don't need a mammogram. >> that's linda hayes speaking at a san diego business expo with two abc news producers. one from our los angeles station kabc. hayes didn't know that they were reporters. when they asked if they could vape her pitch, she agreed. so we requested an interview with hayes and melvin and asked if that sales pitch was backed by scientific proof. hundreds of thousands of women say it's an effective early detection tool. does th does. >> you said no one needs a

mammogram. >> people are adamant about mammograms. >> nobody needs a mammogram. if you never do this, i don't need a mammogram. >> that's her feeling for her. >> your literature says it can detect enthusiasmors eight to ten years before a mammogram. how have you been able to prove that? >> that was done by the american academy of thermology. >> i went for a screening recording by undercover cameras. my technician says she was trained by dr. melvin. i received mine. >> a mild to moderate risk of developing aggressive tissue. >> that soundeds familiar.

i went in for a mammogram afterwards and thankfully, it was normal. >> do youemberie morgan sloan? >> no. 2012. >> these findings indicate that there are significant thermal findings in the report. >> if there was information there that you were alarmed, why wait? >> we need add three-month are recall to understand it. >> he said morgan didn't follow his recommendations and pointed out this line on the intake form. dwight report will not tell me whether i have an illness, disease or other condition". we asked about the statement in the brochure. >> the data doesn't support it as being effective. you have to show that it works. otherwise you end up in

situations where people believe it. they don't get the tests that prove to be beneficial and the results may speak for themselves. >> alma said in her case, avoid medicine were devastateaction. she went to a different thermal place. six months after her screening she received the same diagnosis as morgan. stage iii breast cancer. but her prognosis was much worse. >> she wasn't able to vocalize. they took her to the hospital and they found out that her tumor had spread to her brain. >> alma's health detheatered rapidly. a year after her scan she was unable to answer even the simplest question. >> ok.

do you know what four plus seven is? >> yeah. >> what's that? >> two. >> before alma died she sued her thermal og first and the manufacturer of the camera. the case was eventually settled with the defendants denies any wrongdoing. >> alma would be with us today had she not relied on the results of her thermo gram. >> camilo was by his mother's side until the very end. >> looking back, it was some of my most cherished moments. it brings joy to my heart that we at least got that. >> what's the last thing you remember she said to you? >> despite the fact that she couldn't talk much, she could say "i love you," so she was able to get that out. >> fortunately morgan is now cancer free, weathering years of

chemotherapy and surgery with the help of her son. >> i wanted to be there for her in whatever way i could. >> what did you think when he died his hair pink? >> i loved it. >> she's now cancer free. her advice for anyone who discovers a lump? >> go get a biopsy. it's the only way. >> for "nightline," i'm kiera phillips. >> coming up, the fall of the notorious drug lord, el chapo. from capture to conviction. the new video here tonight. tonight. what'll you choose? how 'bout lobster lover's dream? more like a lobster dream come true. a butter-poached maine tail, roasted rock tail and new ultimate lobsterfest surf & turf is here, too..

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back now with the notorious drug lord el chapo who has been convicted after a three-minute trial in new york. the infamous escapades and escapes, a kingpin finally toppl toppled. here's abc's matt gutman. >> when the plane touched down, the world's most wanted narco looked confused. overwhemd, even. asking the dea agent where am new york, they told him. the most powerful drug lord reduced to tears. now joaquin archivaldo guzman loera looking at jell h jail.

>> we expect it will bring a sentence of life without the possibility of parole its a sentence from which there is no escape and no return. >> he managed to elude capture for years, even escaping prison twice. guzman made billions powerling poison over our boardser. >> mistresses smuggled and drugs in bananas. with one witness testifying, a $100 million bribe was made to former mexican ptresident. the tale of el chapo came crashing down an army, chief among them of d.e.a. ray donovan has been hunting el chapo for the better part of two deck az.

>> he controlled his empire. he didn't trust anyone. >> what message does it send to other drug taskers? >> it says clearly, if we can get our hands on el chapo, i'd say we can get anybody. >> it involved 22 agencies and expand two countries. >> he's probably one of the most vicious, bad guys the world has ever seen. >> he planned his begs models on cops not talking to cops. we got better and better at it. >> the final raid leading to his capture and extradition, a gun battle. el chapo nearly slipping away through the sewer before being apprehended by mexican authorities. how did the extradition play out? >> we were concerned. hey, if he already escaped from

this prison, there's an opportunity for him to do it again. the mexican government realized they had to get him out of mexico. >> he ran the world's largest drug smuggling ring. his trial was marked by unprecedentsed security for jurors. many of whom were scared for their lives. >> think prior to the child el chap trial, his name was known muss with a ruthless killer, manipulator, violent drug trafficker, mountain launderer, liar and adulterer. he was the one who decided to add fentanyl to heroin to make it stronger. he didn't care about the consequences. he didn't care about lives being lost. >> an expert manipulator who had

infiltrated the police. [ speaking foreign language ] >> he believed strongly in a business model and that business model included corrupting virtually every corner of the mexican government. >> his influence was so complete one testified he even underwent a number of plastic surgeries to fool authorities on his trail. >> if you wanted to work for sinaloa, you had to say where you live, where your parents are, where your children are so that if you got caught so you wouldn't captain. >> the smuggling operation bought $5 million worth of cocaine inside cans of jalapenos every year. then the weeping mistress claimed they fled naked from u.s. police enforcement.

she dutyfully sat in court every day of the trial. his multi-national drug empire went into every major american city. from new york to chicago. >> the chicago crime commission designatesed him as public enemy number one. >> he was a genius. he had people working for him that didn't know they were working for him. a hundred thousand street galaxy in chicago put his goods on the street. >> drugs hidden on boes and in cars. perhaps most notesly, in tunnels. >> his nickname was rapido. meaning fast. he was able to turn around drugs in the streets of the u.s. >> we got access to some of el chapo's tunnels back in 2016. >> probably whoever built this

tunnel, probably not their first try. >> they had some experience. >> from above ground, just an average looking home. at one points authorities belief there were 200 functioning tunnels between the u.s. and mexico. something that remains clear, a wall is no match for the sinaloa cartel. >> it's still the number one cartel in the u.s. with the most drug markets. his sons have taken over, following in their father's footsteps. >> until the owned he maintained his innocence. the defense claimed he was the victim of an lab rat conspiracy. now 61, he's run out of escapes. he ex changed a thumbs up with his wife before being skortgg b

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