September 16, 2011
by Brendon Nafziger, DOTmed News Associate Editor
The California State Legislature passed a bill last Friday requiring doctors to inform women if they have dense breasts after a mammogram, making California the second state this summer and the third state so far to have passed a so-called breast density law.
The bill, SB 791, [...]

By SHEILA V KUMAR – Associated Press | AP – Fri, Sep 16, 2011
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — It took seven years of annual mammograms and a cancer diagnosis for Amy Colton to learn something her doctors had realized from the beginning: Her breast tissue is so dense that it could have masked tumors on earlier [...]

Academic Journal
Main Category: Breast Cancer
Article Date: 04 Sep 2011 – 9:00 PDT
Peter C Gøtzsche and Karsten Juhl Jørgensen of the Nordic Cochrane Centre urge for “more honesty” from the NHS BSP (Breast Screening Programme). They believe that harm has been understated, and that information issued to the public has in general been unaffected by “repeated [...]

Thursday, July 28, 2011 by: S. L. Baker, features writer
Computer-aided detection (CAD) technology, which analyzes mammography images and marks suspicious areas for radiologists to review, has been widely hyped and pushed on women as a way to insure invasive breast cancer is spotted on mammograms. And it has grown into a huge industry, adding millions [...]

The New England Journal  of  Medicine
©Copyright, 1998, by the Massachusetts Medical Society
VOLUME  338  A PRIL  16, 1998  NUMBER 16
J OANN  G. E LMORE , M.D., M.P.H., M ARY  B. B ARTON , M.D., M.P.P., V ICTORIA  M. M OCERI , P H .C., S ARAH  P OLK , B.A., P HILIP  J. A RENA , [...]

Int. J. Cancer: 108, 790–794 (2004)
© 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Publication of the International Union Against Cancer
Infrared imaging has frequently been used in the past to detect changes in skin surface temperature associated with breast cancer. Usually a 1–2° C elevation in skin surfacet em-perature is observed at the tumour periphery, and it has been proposed that [...]

Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1993 Nov 30;698:153-8.
Head JF, Wang F, Elliott RL.
Source
Elliott Mastology Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70816.
Abstract
Our recent retrospective analysis of the clinical records of patients who had breast thermography demonstrated that an abnormal thermogram was associated with an increased risk of breast cancer and a poorer prognosis for the breast cancer patient. [...]

Int J Fertil Womens Med. 2001 Sep-Oct;46(5):238-47.
Circadian rhythm chaos: a new breast cancer marker.
Keith LG, Oleszczuk JJ, Laguens M.
Source
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Abstract
The most disappointing aspect of breast cancer treatment as a public health issue has been the failure of screening to improve mortality figures. Since treatment of [...]

The evolving role of the dynamic thermal analysis in the early detection of breast cancer
M Salhab, W Al Sarakbi and K Mokbel
St George’s and The Princess Grace Hospitals, London, UK
International Seminars in Surgical Oncology 2005, 2:8doi:10.1186/1477-7800-2-8
The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.issoonline.com/content/2/1/8

Received:
6 April 2005

Accepted:
8 April 2005

Published:
8 April 2005

© 2005 Salhab et [...]

J Med Eng Technol. 2008 Mar-Apr;32(2):103-14.
Advanced integrated technique in breast cancer thermography.
Ng EY, Kee EC.
Source
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore. mykng@ntu.edu.sg
Abstract
Thermography is a passive and non-contact imaging technique used extensively in the medical arena, but in relation to breast care, it has not been accepted as being [...]