How strange you should post this today as I watched some very interesting research on France 2 this morning that I was going to share. The research I saw concerned the mammogram. The fear is that many people miss them because the glass plates can pinch or just the thought of the rays put them off. Also they don't show cancer so easily in younger breasts and therefore despite rising occurrence in younger women they aren't done until age 50.
So a French university whose name I unfortunately missed because I was writing on Awake at the same time and only concentrated when I heard ....breast cancer....( my excuse is I was listening in French) has developed a special silicone bra shaped testing piece which has internal wiring that measures the densities of the breast tissues through heat. Tumours and other cancer masses show a different heat. So far it's all prototype but the results are astonishing. The tests have shown and found nine out of ten cancers. The results have really encouraged the development of this. The prototype now needs revising and trialling on a large scale but even at this stage it looks very easy and far less stressful than the glass plate and x rays.
For those of us who will be having regular mammograms .....my surgeon told me once a year for the rest of my life.... and if it can identify problems in younger women before their cancers spread.....this has got to be a development worth pursuing.
Thank you for this lesleyhelen, it is wonderful that we have so many 'eyes and ears' looking and listening out for us all.
This makes interesting reading, I wonder if any of our ladies are already on "anakinra" to treat arthritis... hmmm
When I had read up on "bisphosphonates" - this sounds such a good drug, and I thought this helped to possibly avoid spread, however, when I enquired about it, I was told there was no need for me to have this. Felt a little down.... as you all know what we are like when we have googled - think we know better (ssshhh I'm still not convinced, I do actually think between us we know a lot more than most).
Keep looking out for each other - {{Thank You}} xx
I'm hoping this makes sense - only my mind says one thing and my fingers type whatever they like x
