Articles / Research
The following are some articles and research which may be useful to you in educating yourself about Thermography. Please note that the Manual for Referring Health Care Providers and each of these articles also contain extensive bibliographies. They are in PDF format if you wish to download them
General Information about Thermography: how does it work, what are the indications for the test?
Manual for Referring Health Care Providers by Peter Leando, PhD and Daniel Farrier, MD. Copyright Meditherm, Inc. 2003
The Best Breast Test: The Promise of Thermography
Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging...an Overview
Thermography for Breast Cancer
thermologyonline.org
A brief review of Breast Thermography research and breast cancer detection.
See page 30-36 of the Manual for Referring Health Care Providers by Peter Leando, PhD and Daniel Farrier, MD. Copyright Meditherm, Inc. 2003
Len Saputo MD Beyond Mammography, The Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, June 2004.
Why serial scans are more effective than cold stressing for Breast Thermography.
Peter Leando, DC, PhD. Cold Stressing Breasts and why we don’t do it anymore.
William C. Amalu, DC, DABCT. Nondestructive Testing of the Human Breast: The Validity of Dynamic Stress Testing in Medical Infrared Breast Imaging Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE-EMBS. San Francisco, CA, Sept 1-5, 2004.
The Risks of using Mammography X ray to screen the breasts:
A screening test should look at a broad population and highlight those people at greater risk for a disease, so they can be monitored more closely, without harming them or putting them at more risk. Mammogram does not meet this criteria. A woman’s relative risk for breast cancer goes up 1% with every mammogram she has.
Peter Gtzsche, Ole Olsen, Is Screening for Breast Cancer with Mammmography Justifiable? Summary from Lancet 2000; 355:129-134.
D.J. Brenner, S.G. Sawant, P.P. Hande, R.C. Miller, C.D. Elliston Z.Fu,G. Randers-Pehrson and S.A. Marino, Routine screening mammography: how important is the radiation-risk side of the benefit-risk equation? International Journal of Radiation Biology. 78, 1065-1067 (2002)
The low dose X ray used in mammogram carries up to 5 times the risk of higher dose X rays used in other procedures and evidence shows that not only are the irradiated cells permanently damaged, but they pass on the mutations to subsequent new cells.
Lynn Yarris, New Findings On Breast Cancer Reported at AAAS,Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, February 15, 2002.
Kai Rothkamm and Marcus Lobrich, Evidence for a lack of DNA double-strand break repair in human cells exposed to very low x-ray doses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 100, no. 9, pp 5057-5062, April 29,2003
G.J. Heyes and A.J. Mill, The Neoplastic Transformation Potential of Mammography X rays and Atomic Bomb Spectrum Radiation. Radiation Research, 162, 120-127, 2004.
Is using mammogram for breast screening justifiable?
Samuel Epstein, Rosalie Bertell, PhD, GNSH and Barbara Seaman Danger and Unreliability of Mammogram International Journal of Health Services, Volume 31, Number3, pp605-615, 2001.
Robert Anderson, The Deception of Detection, Healthy Options, August 2001.
Dr. Chris Gupta The Depths of Deceit of Mammography
Barclay, Laurie, MD, Mammography Screening Linked to Overdiagnosis of Cancer, Medscape Medical News,www.Medscape.com, April 2, 2012
US Preventative Services Task Force, Screening for Breast Cancer: US Preventative Services Task Force Recommendation Statement. Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 151, Number 10, November 17, 2009
Mammography's Limits Becoming Clear
Mammography Fails/BCPrevention Coalition
Following the Science on Breast Cancer Screening | Breast Cancer Action
Why Mammography Screening is being Abolished in Switzerland
Dr. Tori Hudson, N.D./mammogram
Congressional Hearing on Mammography
American Cancer Society, in a Shift, Recommends Fewer Mammograms - The New York Times
Popular Press: New York Times and Washington Post articles.
Gina Colada, Michael Moss, X ray Vision in Hindsight: Science, Politics and the Mammogram, The New York Times February 11, 2002.
Ceci Connollly, Mammography Review Shatters the Status Quo: Doubts About Its Value Alarm Many, The Washington Post, February 17, 2002, page A1.
Northrup, Christiane, MD
The Best Breast Test: The Promise of Thermography. The Huffington Post, Healthy Living.www.huffingtonpost.com, October 12, 2010
Douglas, William Campbell, MD, Mammography Madness, The Weston A. Price Foundation, www.westonaprice.org, June 5, 2009
What If Everything Your Doctors Told You About Breast Cancer Was Wrong? | Mother Jones
Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer - NYTimes.com
Risks of Breast Screening
Vast Study Casts Doubts on Value of Mammograms - NYTimes.com
Breast cancer detection rate using ultrasound is shown to be comparable to mammography
Ignoring the Science on Mammograms - NYTimes.com
A Radhakrishnan, MD; S. A. Nowak, PhD; A.M. Parker, PhD; et al, Clinicians Not Following Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines, JAMA Intern Med. 2017;177(6):877-878.
The reliability of Infrared Imaging in evaluating suspicious breast lesions using thermography.
Nimmi Arora, M.D., Diana Martins, B.S., Danielle Ruggerio, B.S.,Eleni Tousimis, M.D., Alexander J. Swistel, M.D.,Michael P. Osborne, M.D., Rache M. Simmons, M.D. Effectiveness of a noninvasive digital infrared thermal imaging system in the detection of breast cancer The American Journal of Surgery (2008) 196, 523–526
Y.R. Parisky et al., Efficacy of Computerized Infrared Imaging Analysis to Evaluate Mammographically Suspcious Lesions, American Journal of Radiology, vol. 180, January, 2003.
M. Gautherie PhD, C Gross, MD. Breast Thermography and Cancer Risk Prediction. Cancer, 45:51-56, 1980