Posts Tagged ‘Breast Check’
CATCH BREAST CANCER EARLY - Leinster Leader 8th October 2009
Thursday, October 15th, 2009Catch breast cancer early with radical new procedure in Naas – Paula Campbell.
A radical new type of breast assessment for younger women is available in Kildare, which has the highest rate of breast cancer in Ireland.
The Irish Centre of Integrated Medicine (ICIM ) in Johnstown, is offering the unique service to women under 50 who are not covered as part of the national scheme to detect and treat breast cancer. As October is breast cancer awareness month I eagerly accepted an invite to have my own breast assessed. (more…)
Cancer Battle Hots Up
Sunday, January 7th, 2007
Thermal imaging is being touted as a new way to identify cancer. But not everyone agrees
In 1971, former US president Richard Nixon launched a much-hyped ‘war on cancer’, confidently proclaiming that a cure for the disease would be discovered within five years. Thirty years on, we are still suffering from the scourge.
Cancer has become one of the most lethal diseases known to mankind, with one in four people expected to die from it.
But with more emphasis being placed on the early detection of cancer, there is now renewed interest in infra-red technology. Is it the hot new way to identify cancer, or just more quackology?
Breast Cancer does not discriminate
Friday, June 9th, 2006
Caroline Morahan
Fashion Legend
Breast cancer does not discriminate. But with early detection, it can be beaten. Last year, when I interviewed Kylie Minogue, she was the picture of good health. Two weeks later, the story broke that she had breast cancer. My first thought was concern for her and her family. My second: the realisation that her openness would save thousands of lives. An icon like Kylie shows that no woman is untouchable. Regular breast checks are a great tool for detection but now, in Ireland, we have the technology to intercept it much earlier. At the Irish Centre of Integrated Medicine in Naas, Medical Thermography can detect the potential development of cancer 10 years before any other form of testing.
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New Screening put my mind at ease after battling with Cancer
Sunday, April 2nd, 2006
A new quick and easy thermal scan can change the lives of thousands of Irish sufferers.Mary Coleman has survived breast cancer but lived with the fear that it could return until she discovered a new high-tech screening.
The 50-year-old used to travel to London for the procedure, called Medical Thermography, despite her fear of flying.
Mum-of-two Mary from Castleblaney, Co. Monaghan was diagnosed with breast cancer in October 2005.
She says: “It was such a shock to discover I had abnormal, pre-cancerous cells. I’d had a mammogram 18 months earlier and I was fine.
“All the other women in work were fretting because they had to go for a mammogram but I thought I was home free.” (more…)