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There's got to be a better way According to this TED talk from Dec 2010, there is: http://www.ted.com/talks/deborah_rhodes.html http://www.ted.com/talks/debor
by Sukotto 15y ago
There's got to be a better way
According to this TED talk from Dec 2010, there is:
http://www.ted.com/talks/deborah_rhodes.html http://www.ted.com/talks/deborah_rhodes.html
Deborah Rhodes: A tool that finds 3x more breast tumors,
and why it's not available to you
Working with a team of physicists, Dr. Deborah Rhodes
developed a new tool for tumor detection that's 3 times
as effective as traditional mammograms for women with
dense breast tissue. The life-saving implications are
stunning. So why haven't we heard of it? Rhodes shares
the story behind the tool's creation, and the web of
politics and economics that keep it from mainstream use.
- runningdogx 15y ago(tl;dw for the video: it's about the dramatically improved detection of breast cancer particularly in dense breast tissue (where mammographies often fail to visibly differentiate tumors) by injecting a radiotracer and using small gamma detectors that can fit closely around the breast.) There's also breast thermography. http://www.iact-org.org/patients/breastthermography/what-is-breast-therm.html http://www.iact-org.org/patients/breastthermography/what-is-... And another technique I couldn't find a description of but I read about a while ago, where the breast temperature is altered first. Since tumors have greater blood supply, it makes breast thermography (or something like it... I forget the exact detection method) even more accurate in detecting cancer, since a tumor with greater blood supply will return to normal temperature faster than the surrounding tissue.
- Karellen 15y agoBreast thermography appears to be mostly quackery http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/dr-christiane-northrup-and-breast-thermography-the-opportunistic-promotion-of-quackery/ http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/dr-christiane-...
- Karellen 15y agoThere is also good science behind not wanting your cancer detection regimes to be too sensitive - "false" positives complicate the picture immensely. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-early-detection-of-cancer-and-improved-survival-more-complicated-than-most-people-think/ http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-early-dete...