By Johnnie Ham, MD, MBA Original Article at Mercola.com Many women are completely unaware that the science backing the use of mammograms is sketchy at best. As was revealed in a 2011 meta-analysis by the Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews, mammography breast cancer screening led to 30 percent overdiagnosis and overtreatment, which equates to an […]
Psych Effects Linger After False Positive Mammograms
By KATIE MOISSE (@katiemoisse) March 18, 2013 ABC News Mammograms can detect breast cancer early, and save lives. But they can also lead to false alarms that take a heavy psychological toll, a new study found. The Danish study of more than 1,300 women found that those who received “false positive” results on their screening […]
Richard Smith: The case for slow medicine
17 Dec, 12 | By BMJ Group The characteristics of health systems are complexity, uncertainty, opacity, poor measurement, variability in decision making, asymmetry of information, conflict of interest, and corruption. They are thus largely a black box and uncontrollable, said Gianfranco Domenighetti of the Università della Svizzera Italiana at a meeting in Bologna on La […]
Topol: Runaway Use of Radiation Harming Patients
From: Medscape Eric J. Topol, MD Dec 17, 2012 Link to Article and Video Hello. I’m Dr. Eric Topol, Director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and Editor-in-Chief of Medscape Genomic Medicine and theheart.org. In this series, The Creative Destruction of Medicine, named for the book I wrote, I’m trying to zoom in on critical […]
Manufacturing controversy: CBC’s thermography story – who’s deceiving who?
By Darcy Fitzpatrick Post at: SignalBlog.ca Posted on: Tuesday, December 18th, 2012 A few weeks ago in late November, CBC’s Here and Now presented an investigative report on thermography. Sort of. It wasn’t really about thermography. I mean, they didn’t look into thermography in any great detail. What they did instead was focus in on […]
Health Canada protects mammogram racket by criminalizing thermography for breast cancer detection
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer By Natural News (NaturalNews) The forces of evil are currently running wild in Canada, where the government-run healthcare machine and the mainstream media are currently engaged in a vicious assault on the safe and effective breast cancer screening tool known as thermography. A recent “investigative” […]
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The Benefits and Harms of Breast Cancer Screening: An Independent Review
The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 30 October 2012 doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61611-0Cite or Link Using DOI The benefits and harms of breast cancer screening: an independent review Original Text Independent UK Panel on Breast Cancer Screening† Summary Whether breast cancer screening does more harm than good has been debated extensively. The main questions are how large the benefit […]
Breast Cancer Screening Causes More Damage than Previously Thought
Around 4,000 women have unnecessary treatment for a disease that will never threaten their health, though tests should continue Sarah Boseley, health editor The Guardian, Monday 29 October 2012 Around 1,300 lives are saved by mammography, but many women have unnecessary breast cancer treatment. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA Breast cancer screening causes more harm than has […]
Thermal Imaging System Could Help Detect Drunk People
Source: CBS Seattle September 12, 2012 A new use for old technology could give police a hand in spotting drunks in public. In a paper that was published in the “International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics,” Greek scientists Georgia Koukiou and Vassilis Anastassopoulos are developing new algorithms that will gather data about blood-vessels […]
Professors: Komen overstating benefits of mammograms (CNN News)
By Saundra Young, CNN Sr. Medical Producer updated 1:33 PM EDT, Tue August 7, 2012 Read complete article on CNN (CNN) — A national breast cancer charity is being accused of using misleading statistics to convince women to have mammograms, according to a paper published Thursday in the British Medical Journal. Susan G. Komen for […]
Cancer prevention on minds of Ontario CWL
Written by Erin Morawetz, The Catholic Register Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:25 Ontario’s Catholic Women’s League has put its support behind infrared breast screening thermography while expressing opposition to youth indoor tanning. These resolutions were passed at the 65th annual Ontario provincial convention of the CWL, which took place in Kingston, Ont., July 9 to […]
When a Train is not a Boat, and a Row Boat is not a Luxury Liner
Why Mammography cannot be compared with breast thermography. Author: Dr. Hillary Smith I have recently seen the media go crazy with a study that was done at Bryn Mawr Hospital comparing mammography and thermography for breast cancer detection. The thermal images in the study failed to impress those conducting the study. And so we see […]
Rebuttle to No-Touch Study ~ Misleading Media About Thermography
The recent plethora of articles reporting a study published that compares a certain type of infrared imaging for breast cancer with mammography has been taken out of context and perspective by some journalists and by certain self interest groups within the medical profession. The ‘No touch breast scan’ product was tested alongside mammography for the […]
Understanding the Role of DITI* in Breast Screening
The benefits of DITI do vary between age and risk groups. With the pre mammogram age group (under 50) the benefits of screening to detect any findings or changes that justify additional testing or closer monitoring are simple. With any positive DITI findings in this younger age group, any mammogram and ultrasound sensitivity and specificity will be increased with the […]
Yale Study – Trial Using Meditherm DITI System
“Early assessment of the efficacy of digital infrared thermal imaging in pediatric extremity trauma” by: Cicero T. Silva & Nausheen Naveed & Syed Bokhari & Kenneth E. Baker & Lawrence H. Staib & Saad M. Ibrahim & Karl Muchantef & Thomas R. Goodman Received: 11 January 2012 / Accepted: 1 February 2012 Copyright of Am […]