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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 http://www.thermologyonline.org/Research/Breast/breast.html 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.
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.