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The Weekend Sun
Friday 3 February 2012
Advocating ways of healthy living Breast thermal imaging (thermography) started more than 40 years ago, but has gained increasing reliability, with cameras adapted from modern military heat detection devices, combined with computer software.
This is a normal thermogram with symmetrical blood vessel pattern. Breast thermography should be considered to be a helpful tool in the assessment of women’s breast health.
Dr Mike Godfrey says thermography is based on the well-established fact that any cancer has to develop new blood vessels before it can grow beyond a pin-head size. “Most breast cancers are sufficiently superficial for these new blood vessels to be detected by thermal imaging and by nothing else. “Sequential thermographic monitoring can detect whether these vessels are spreading and the need for further investigations or receding, following lifestyle and other interventions.” In an ideal situation, Mike says every woman ought to have a baseline thermogram before her first pregnancy or by age 20 to establish her blood vessel pattern with comparative imaging at intervals after. Breast thermography may contribute to breast cancer diagnosis, but never as a sole modality, always adjunct to established clinical methods of breast cancer diagnosis like X-ray, mammography, ultrasound, palpation, MRI and biopsy. Mike is just one of many health practitioners holding informative discussions and demonstrations at the Tauranga Healthy Living Festival on February 4-5 at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre. John Swanepoel, a health practitioner for 16 years, is another medical expert at the festival. John began his career as a physiotherapist and acupuncturist and
Look for the best, find what works If you want to get the best out of man, you must look for the best that is in him. Bernard Haldane I believe we all have good intentions for those around us, until something is done that upsets or annoys us. It is then that our own needs overcome the needs of the other. If we are able to overcome
this initial reaction, we may be able to turn a situation around so that both experience a win in the situation. When we stop looking at what is not working in a relationship and focus on what is working and what is the best in the other person, we find that the negatives actually decrease. What relationship in your life would benefit from this approach right now?
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