In these works, Lawson drew attention to the rising rates of breast cancer in Canada,
characterizing the disease as a substantial health problem for Canadian women from 40 to …

IN THE early 1970s, clinical thermography of the breast appeared to be a technique that
would soon be well established. True-positive rates for carcinoma of the breast were in the …

The first recorded use of thermobiological diagnostics can be found in the writings of
Hippocrates around 480 BC [1]. A mud slurry spread over the patient was observed for areas …

Thermography—a direct method of measuring skin temperature either as discrete values or
in the form of a visual image—is ineffective for detecting clinically occult breast cancer and …

The utilization of thermal imaging in the evaluation of the human breast has been for the
past two decades a highly effective form of screening for breast cancer and other breast …

Thermography-based breast cancer screening has several advantages as it is non-contact,
non-invasive and safe. Many clinical trials have shown its effectiveness to detect cancer …

More than 50 years has passed since the hypothesis of thermography in breast imaging was
proposed. During this time, thermography has gone from a legitimate, promising technology …

The author outlines the historical attempts made to use infrared thermography for breast
cancer detection. He concludes that the technique was a great idea that failed. One can …

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide (in 2010, nearly 1.5 million
people were told:» You have breast cancer «). It is also the principal cause of 500,000 …

Breast thermography is both misunderstood and overestimated by physicians and laymen
alike. Since a unilateral increase in heat emanation is a nonspecific response to a variety of …