Themography
Mammogram Verses Thermogram (Thermology, Infared)
Society makes allowances for religion. If a Jehovah’s Witness goes to the hospital and refuses a blood transfusion or certain treatments, there is a protocol that is followed. Go to the hospital for cancer and if you refuse chemotherapy and radiation, you could be seen negatively. This discrimination is no better than discriminating against a religion. Women are starting to choose thermograms instead of mammograms and the medical community has even refused to treat some women who make this choice. Something is very wrong with this picture. In fact, breast tissue is one of the most sensitive tissues to radiation next to a fetus. It is understood that radiation can lead to abnormal changes in tissue. This makes radiation exposure on a regular basis a real issue for women. Many also feel that if they do have an abnormal growth then they do not want to radiate this tissue.
The concern that woman have that mammograms could be contributing to cancer is not unfounded. A study of 110,000 Norwegian women using mammograms were part of a study to find out if there was a link between mammograms and breast health. The results of the study showed that woman had a 22 percent increase occurrence of invasive breast cancer when using mammograms yearly in a five year time span (Zahl, PH., 2008). The International Journal of Health Services published a report based on, “47 scientific articles on mammography at the prestigious Chicago School of Public Health” (Euler, L., 2011). The findings showed that mammograms show an, “induction and promotion of breast cancer” (Epstein, S. 2001). Since mammograms have become a common practice, ductal carcinoma in situ has risen by 328 percent. This finding is compounded from research by the University of California, San Francisco where researchers found that “200 percent of this surge is due to mammography” (Euler, L., 2011).
Dr. Joseph Mercola states the following:
You might not realize that cancer is now the disease most likely to lead to your death. It passed heart disease as the #1 killer a number of years ago. And if you are a woman, breast cancer is the type of cancer you are most likely to get. That's why I don't recommend mammograms, despite what you may hear from other medical sources. They expose your body to radiation that can be 1,000 times greater than that from a chest x-ray -- this makes you vulnerable unnecessarily to further risks of radiation-induced cancer. Additionally, mammography compresses the breasts tightly (and often painfully), which could lead to a lethal spread of any existing malignant cells. And there is no solid evidence that mammograms save lives. In fact, research demonstrates that adding an annual mammogram to a careful physical examination of the breasts does not improve breast cancer survival rates over getting the examination alone. You can read more on this here:
http://naturalhealthcenter.mercola.com/services/thermography.aspx
Thermograms have been FDA approved since 1982 and recently Helen Barr, M.D., director of the Division of Mammography Quality and Radiation Programs in the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health made a statement that thermograms should be used in conjunction with other tests and not replace them (FDA, 2011). Thermograms have been shown to detect abnormal issues long before a mammogram, uses no radiation, will not cause accumulative radiation exposure over the years, and is based on temperature and vascular formation which is a strong indicator of abnormality rather than just structural changes. The thermograms show abnormality rather accurately. Then further testing with utlrasound and biopsies are suggested by the medical community. In the FDA article, it states, "Web sites have been touting thermography as a replacement for mammography and claim that thermography can find breast cancer years before it would be detected by mammography. The problem is that FDA has no evidence to support these claims." However the focus should be abnormal findings as there are many abnormal conditions besides cancer. Just as a mammogram cannot alone prove malignancy. According to the American Cancer Society, "A mammogram may show something suspicious, but by itself it can't prove that an abnormal area is cancer" (2014). There are numerous medical studies on thermograms that have been conducted by the medical community (Read more here.)
One of the justifications is that a thermogram is not accurate. However, medical research on thermograms done in several countries has shown an interesting pattern. Thermograms can actually see vascular changes to tissue and may serve as a long term picture of what is developing. Simple benign growths have poor vascular development or blood supply. Cancer has a more developed vascular system or blood supply. Newer thermology technology has shown even more promising results. In one study 92 women who were undergoing biopsies after having a mammogram or utlrasound. Out of all the biopsies 60 were found to be malignant. The digital infared thermal imaging found 58 out of the 60 malignancies with a 97% sensitivity rate ( Am J Surg,. 2008). You can read the study here.
The focus of the debate needs to be revisited. The issue is abnormality. Any abnormality is a concern for the health of the body. In the study entitled, "Breast Thermography After Four Years and 10,000 Studies, they state, "The development of an abnormal pattern when compared to a normal baseline study must always be viewed with extreme suspicion, for in each such case that has come to biopsy the pathologist has reported disease, either benign or malignant". It should be noted that the technology of this study was based on the older models of thermography machines from 1960's and 1970's. Thermography machines have improved since then. Even with the older technology abnormality was evident. In their findings they state, "Thermography is an innocuous examination that can be utilized for preliminary screening of asymptomatic women to focus attention upon those who should be examined more intensively because of greater risk of breast cancer." (Isard, et al, Vol. 115, No. 4) This recommendation means less radiation and risk of breast cancer from testing modalities. This means that repeat thermograms could be helpful in health monitoring. This would reduce the radiation exposure. You can read the study here.
Thermography is used in the medical community in several different ways and you can read about just a few of those clinical studies here:
http://www.breastthermography.com/research_studies.htm
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S129007290800149X
http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/99/15/1965.short
http://thejns.org/doi/abs/10.3171/jns.1982.56.3.0386
http://www.breastthermography.com/infrared_imaging_review.htm
Biopsies
Biopsies have been the only accepted method of confirming a malignancy in the medical field. Even though it is understood that vascular changes are a consistent process in the formation of cancer. The medical community feels the urgency of understanding exactly what the biopsies show based on predictors of how the cancer might behave and how fast it could spread. From that vantage point, it is understandable why they wish to do so. However, the alternative perspective takes a holistic approach in healing the body. Regardless of the type of cancer, the treatment is the same. This is one reason why the holistic philosophy has a different perspective on biopsies.
There is also a concern of spreading the cancer if the wall of the tumor is broken. The body will often times create a wall around the tumor and keep it enclosed. When a needle or incision breaks through this wall, there is a chance that the cells could migrate and find their way to another location. The John Wayne Cancer Institute conducted a study to find out if biopsies contributed to the spread of breast cancer. Their results were surprising to the medical community. They reported three types of biopsies as being (FNA) Fine Needle Aspiration, large-gauge needle core, and excisional (surgery). Their conclusion was that, “Manipulation of an intact tumor by FNA or large-gauge needle core biopsy is associated with an increase in the incidence of SN metastases, perhaps due in part to the mechanical disruption of the tumor by the needle”.
Holistic Medicine
One very important factor should be noted about alternaitves or holisitic mediicines. They are tools. The body actually uses tools to heal itself. This means that what we put into our bodies may cuase a chemical reaction, but our bodies must interact with that substance in order for it to have an action in the body. So when someone says that a cure has been found, what they are really saying is that a tool has been found that allows the body to heal itself.
Alternative cancer treatments are not readily accepted in the United States, but alternative treatments are being used around the world. If someone chooses to take an alternative then it is their sovereign right. No doctor, organization, or institution has the right to determine an individual’s treatment choice. Doctors all over the world do use holistic medicine and conventional medicine and have begun to explore other possibilities. In the United States, this has been less possible because of regulations that are put in place. The health care industry has a large profit margin. The process of patenting and selling millions or billions of dollars of a patented medicine has saturated the market as the acceptable process of treating disease. Yet, healthcare is a personal choice. The compliment of both schools would benefit the health of patients and this is after all the most important factor of health care.
Origin of Discrimination
The origin of this discrimination begins with education. Most medical doctors have no training or very little training in nutrition or the holisitic perspective. If many patients are returning to these treatments, then why would they be left out of the education process for medical doctors? The pharmaceutical industry cannot patent natural substances and they never should be allowed to do so. Nature belongs to all of humanity. Therefore, there cannot be profit made on the scale as can be made from synthetic drugs that can be patented. This means that commercial enterprise has little interest in pursuing a natural alternative to the synthetic chemicals.
On the biological level, there is a problem with the synthetic version. It does not completely match the body’s chemistry. This means that it will work against the body in some fashion and eventually encourage the degeneration of the body. Interestingly, most of the drug ideas come from observing what happens in nature with plant life. Then pharmaceuticals must mimic the chemical reaction of these substances in order to create a product that can be patented and profited from on a large scale. While some great strides in understanding chemical processes has been made in the pursuit of understanding these chemical processes, the end result is that a system of profit has taken precedence over cures and balancing technology with nature. There is indeed a science to these cures and substitutions and fake versions of them are on the market. Just as the pharmaceutical industry has grades, the nutraceutical industry has grades as well. There is a science in how these materials are processed and prepared. This is necessary in both of these fields.
It should be noted that these doctors and researchers are trained in the medical field and science. The rigorous training they undergo is essential, but should be enhanced by understanding that innovation comes from them being empowered to make a difference. This is something that the medical field should be proud of and embrace as humanity moves to a new place where medical field and holistic medicine can work side by side without profit being the biggest factor of what people know or have access to for health.
The great advances made by Nicola Tesla in the way of infrared, x-ray, radio waves, and many others have served as a great service to the medical field. This was a man who became a vegetarian and in his later part of life became enthusiastic about living in harmony with nature. No doubt, he would be thrilled to know so many doctors have taken what they know and what they are taught and come to a place where they have educated themselves on a better way. This change is as monumental as Tesla’s water car was in curbing pollution. It is time for the discrimination to end and both sides of schools of thought on health to lay down their differences because people’s lives are at stake.
It is the sovereign right of each individual to decide what treatments they choose when it comes to their health. No one living in a modern society should still be facing discrimination about their philosophy of health. The Hippocratic oath of doctors to do no harm includes that fact that they must respect a patient’s philosophy of health and choice to use a holistic perspective. The doctors that are leading the way in bridging the gap between the holistic perspective and modern medicine are indeed practicing a philosophy of healing.
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Additional Clinical Studies Sanguinaria Canadensis (Bloodroot)
Alkaloids Isolated from Natural Herbs as the Anticancer Agents
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2012; 2012: 485042. Published online 2012 September 4. doi: 10.1155/2012/485042
Alkaloids are important chemical compounds that serve as a rich reservoir for drug discovery. Several alkaloids isolated from natural herbs exhibit antiproliferation and antimetastasis effects on various types of cancers both in vitro and in vivo. Alkaloids, such as camptothecin and vinblastine, have already been successfully developed into anticancer drugs. This paper focuses on the naturally derived alkaloids with prospective anticancer properties, such as berberine, evodiamine, matrine, piperine, sanguinarine, and tetrandrine, and summarizes the mechanisms of action of these compounds.
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Sanguinarine Inhibits Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Release by Generation of Reactive
Oxygen Species in MCF-7 Human Mammary Adenocarcinoma Cells
Biomed Res Int. 2013; 2013: 517698. Published online 2013 May 21. doi: 10.1155/2013/517698
The inhibitory action and the possible mechanism of anticancer compound Sanguinarine (SAN) on vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in human mammary adenocarcinoma cells MCF-7 were evaluated in this study.
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Apoptosis Induction of Human Bladder Cancer Cells by Sanguinarine through Reactive
Oxygen Species-Mediated Up-Regulation of Early Growth Response Gene-1
Although the effects of sanguinarine, a benzophenanthridine alkaloid, on the inhibition of some kinds of cancer cell growth have been established, the underlying mechanisms are not completely understood. This study investigated possible mechanisms by which sanguinarine exerts its anticancer action in cultured human bladder cancer cell lines (T24, EJ, and 5637). Sanguinarine treatment resulted in concentration-response growth inhibition of the bladder cancer cells by inducing apoptosis.
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Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis L., Papaveraceae) Enhances Proliferation and
Cytokine Production by Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells in an In Vitro Model
J Herbs Spices Med Plants. Jan 1, 2009; 15(1): 45.
Almost all investigations have suggested sanguinarine is the most bioactive of the alkaloid group. Several medical uses for bloodroot appear to be substantiated by in vitro models. Most of these studies used sanguinarine (13-methyl[1,3]benzodioxolo[5,6-c]-1,3-dioxolo[4,5-i]phenanthridinium) in isolation, rather than whole-plant preparations. Sanguinarine has demonstrated anti-cancer activities in vitro, due to the ability to inhibit proliferation or activate components of apoptotic pathways (6,11,13,15,19). Sanguinarine also shows anti-angiogenic (3,9), anti-inflammatory (7,8), anti-platelet (17), and antimicrobial properties (4). Fewer studies have examined extracts made from whole plants rather than isolated compounds, and possibly that combinations of compounds may collectively exert different effects than lone compounds.
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Strategies for prostate cancer prevention: Review of the literature
Sanguinarine, an alkaloid derived from the bloodroot plant Sanguinaria canadensis has been shown to possess anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. It has been shown that sanguinarine can cause cell cycle blockade and apoptosis of human prostate carcinoma cells via modulation of cyclin kinase inhibitor-cyclin-cyclin dependent kinase machinery.[65] The growth inhibitory and antiproliferative effects of sanguinarine in human carcinoma cells was irrespective of their androgen status.
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Secondary Metabolites from Plants Inhibiting ABC Transporters and Reversing
Resistance of Cancer Cells and Microbes to Cytotoxic and Antimicrobial Agents
It is remarkable on the first sight that also quite a large number of more polar phenolic SM (phenolic acids, flavonoids, catechins, chalcones, xanthones, stilbenes, anthocyanins, tannins, anthraquinones, and naphthoquinones) inhibit P-gp, MRP1, BCRP, and OATP in cancer cells with MDR. Some of them can reverse MDR when given in combination with cytotoxic agents (Table (Table2).2). Bacteria and fungi appear to be sensitive as well (Guz et al., 2001; Falcao-Silva et al., 2009). Some of these phenolics are lipophilic enough to be competitive inhibitors of ABC transporters.
This review summarizes the evidence that selected SM of plants can be interesting candidates to inhibit ABC transporters in MDR cancer cells or to chemosensitize pathogenic fungi and other microbes for treatment with antimicrobial agents. Whereas lipophilic terpenoids and alkaloids appear to be substrates of P-gp, MRP1, or BCRP and thus competitive inhibitors, the more polar phenolic compounds (flavonoids, tannins, quinones) can bind to the transporter proteins and inhibit their activity by disturbing protein conformation. A combination of a cytotoxic agent, antibiotic, or fungicide with a natural chemosensitizer (not necessarily an inhibitor of ABC transporters) might provide an interesting strategy to overcome MDR in cancer patients and to improve antibiotic or antifungal efficacy in medicine, agriculture, or food industry.
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Discovery of anti-TB agents that target the cell-division protein FtsZ
Future Med Chem. Author manuscript; available in PMC Jun 1, 2011.
Published in final edited form as:
Sanguinarine, a benzophenanthridine alkaloid derived from the rhizomes of Sanguinaria canadensis, is known to have a broad range of antimicrobial activity [72]. Beuria et al. reported that sanguinarine inhibited cytokinesis in both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria by arresting the E. coli FtsZ assembly [73]. Electron microscopic images of FtsZ polymer treated with sanguinarine indicated reduced thickness and significantly shorter lengths of FtsZ bundles.
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Sanguinarine is a novel VEGF inhibitor involved in the suppression of angiogenesis and cell migration
Mol Clin Oncol. 2013 Mar-Apr; 1(2): 331–336.
Sanguinarine is a benzophenanthridine alkaloid derived from the root of Sanguinaria canadensis and other poppy-fumaria species, and has been shown to possess antimicrobial, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties (8). An increasing number of studies have suggested that sanguinarine at micromolar concentrations exhibits potential antitumor activities by the inhibition of cancer cell growth, migration and invasion, as well as the repression of angiogenesis (9–12). Additional studies have indicated that sanguinarine reduces VEGF-induced angiogenesis (13–15). Moreover, the inhibition of angiogenesis by sanguinarine has recently been validated in melanoma (10) and colorectal cancer (17).
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