What are dense breasts an why is it significant? Recent Posts What are dense breasts an why is it significant? Physiology vs Anatomy A Brief History of Medical Thermography What is Angiogenesis, and why is it important? Integrative Oncology All breasts contain 3 different types of tissue – glandular, connective and fatty tissue. Breasts are considered to be more or less ‘dense’ depending on the relative amounts of these three tissues. Denser breasts contain a higher proportion of glandular and connective tissue, and lower amounts of fatty tissue. Younger women generally have denser brea ..read more

Physiology vs Anatomy Recent Posts Physiology vs Anatomy A Brief History of Medical Thermography What is Angiogenesis, and why is it important? Integrative Oncology Change your Diet and get Some Exercise As you may know, there are different tests for breast abnormalities, and they are contentious, to say the least. They use different technology, and one of the divides is the difference in approach the technologies bring to observing disease or pathology. Thermography is a physiological study of the body, while mammography is an anatomical study. This blog post will try to explore the di ..read more

A Brief History of Medical Thermography Recent Posts Physiology vs Anatomy A Brief History of Medical Thermography What is Angiogenesis, and why is it important? Integrative Oncology Change your Diet and get Some Exercise Infrared technology and Medical Thermography (recording heat variation in physiological testing) have two separate histories, but they were brought together ultimately after centuries of scientific experiments. The first person to link body temperature to physiology was Hippocrates, around 400BC, who covered patients in wet cloth and observed the different rates of dry ..read more

What is Angiogenesis, and why is it important? Recent Posts Physiology vs Anatomy A Brief History of Medical Thermography What is Angiogenesis, and why is it important? Integrative Oncology Change your Diet and get Some Exercise You may have heard the term ‘Angiogenesis’ in your research, or even at one of your thermography appointments. It is a crucial concept and one that helps to explain how thermography works and its advantage. Angiogenesis is a normal and healthy process that occurs throughout your life. Any tissue in your body that is active or ‘alive’ needs to be close to blood v ..read more

Change your Diet and get Some Exercise Recent Posts Physiology vs Anatomy A Brief History of Medical Thermography What is Angiogenesis, and why is it important? Integrative Oncology Change your Diet and get Some Exercise It’s been written about so much that it’s become a cliché – “the key to good health is diet and exercise!” In the complex modern world we live in it’s very easy to dismiss simple solutions to problems like illness, but we mustn’t forget that our bodies evolved naturally to eat natural foods and move around in natural ways. The man-made food most of us eat is so far from ..read more

Please STOP using war metaphors when speaking about cancer! Recent Posts Physiology vs Anatomy A Brief History of Medical Thermography What is Angiogenesis, and why is it important? Integrative Oncology Change your Diet and get Some Exercise After reading this article about the use of ‘war metaphors’ to describe cancer, it occurred to me that there may be something more to this than meets the eye. The article resists the idea that words like ‘fight, ‘battle’ and ‘survive’ are the best way to describe a patient’s journey – that it diminishes what women go through. Also that it’s inapprop ..read more

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