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Breast Health Awareness
Being breast health aware means being familiar with how your breasts look and feel, whatever your age. Your breasts may change at different times during the month and as you get older, but if you are aware of this, you will be able to recognise if a change is ‘normal for you’ or not. These …
‘Get to know your breasts’, says TV presenter Diana Binks
Diana Binks is a television sports presenter and currently presents late night Sport on Five. Ten years ago Diana, found a lump in her left breast. Fortunately for Diana, it wasn’t cancer, but her experience made her much more conscious about her breast health. In her early thirties at the time, Diana discovered the pea-sized …
Some Thoughts On Thermography
Thermography in New Zealand is currently unregulated. There are moves towards self regulation but in the meantime there is likely to be a variation in quality between different providers. This compares with mammography which is regulated with good quality control systems in place. Just as it is important that the public is fully informed about …
Mammography, Thermography and the Screening “Wars”
Introduction: Prevention or Health Promotion? With the widespread availability of medical services a significant development has been a focus on treating illness rather than preventing it. However, prevention has a long and distinguished history, starting from the awareness of hygiene’s role (1) to better town planning (2). However, in recent years there has been a …
Thermography: New Breast Screening Technology
New breast screening technology offers breast cancer detection hope to women under 50 Research from Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge in May 2010 revealed that using Digital Infrared BreastScan (DIB) to detect breast cancer in combination with mammograms, increases the sensitivity of detecting tumours to 89%. The study showed that dual imaging increases sensitivity by 11% …
How To Check Your Breasts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7nHml2mgaA&feature=player_embedded
Early Detection of Breast Health Issues – Thermography
Munch more broccoli; loose weight; stay away from alcohol; eat flax seeds every day…. And have a regular mammogram. Yes, of course, I’m talking about preventing breast cancer. Every year, in every corner of the planet, over a million women hear the shocking words… “you have breast cancer”. Almost 2,300 of those women live in New Zealand, and …