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AllyCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 11:45 AM
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103. I asked an oncology nurse about thermography (I had one instead of mammogram)
and she said they find tumors too late as they measure blood flow "heat". By the time a tumor has blood flow high enough to be measured, it's too late. While this sounds logical, she also didn't really seem to know a lot about thermography.

Why on earth someone would want to squeeze a potentially cancerous tumor and burst it is beyond me. The last time I received a reminder from my insurance company to get a mammogram, my milk had just come in after having a baby. At the time, I could think of nothing more horrible than a mammogram!
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