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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 03:39 PM
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Tiny chip can measure estrogen in breast tissue
Source: Reuters

A new pocket-sized device may allow doctors to check a woman's breast cancer risk in minutes with just droplets of blood or a sliver of breast tissue, Canadian researchers said on Wednesday.

They said the microchip device can measure levels of the hormone estrogen using far smaller samples than conventional methods, making it possible to quickly screen for breast cancer risk or check to see if breast cancer treatments are working.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE5965GP20091007



That's two breakthroughs announced from Canada today,them socialist freeloaders.
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 03:41 PM
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 03:43 PM
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2. Great news!
K&R

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JTFrog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 03:49 PM
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Soylent Brice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 03:56 PM
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4. to the greatest with you too.
K&R

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MARALE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 04:00 PM
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5. This would be much better than a mamogram!
i hate the squishy breast thing!
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robinlynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 04:19 PM
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7. But dont give up on your mammograms. Mine found something last year.
very early on. undetectable by a human. they did a biopsy, put a tiny metal chip inside, and track it every year with ultrasound. I am so glad I didn't miss that mammogram! really. do it. It's worth it.
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robinlynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 04:16 PM
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6. but it only measures levels of estrogen. how is that going to tell you if you have cancer?
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earcandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 11:14 PM
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8. I would check and see if female politicians get mammograms. I think they cause cancer. Why?
They cause trauma to breast tissue. 

Furthermore, we did not have so much breast cancer until they
were introduced.

And finally, the medical industry is full of misogynists
looking for duplicious ways to make bucks,
generally speaking.  It is very frightening what the FDA has
approved for sale. 

Bacteria eating viruses sprayed on all cold meats, without
knowledge of what those viruses are going
to do inside your body?  Why are people dropping dead in their
20's, their 50's?  Something is going
on.  I had a complaint session with my doctor  on Monday.  I
can't say it was a physical although it
was supposed to be.  I couldn't believe that he said that it
is okay to eat sugared cereal fortified
with vitamins and that calories is all that counts, not
nutrition.  With that kind of advice you might
as well have kids in charge of diets.  I am so disappointed in
how my country and the quality of life
around me is crumbling.  I think my greatest health challenge
is focusing on containing and dissipating
my rage.  I help myself by making music, creating art,
learning flash, focusing on my work... all else seems to
trivialize
the sacredness of life, lately.  These clowns in congress with
health insurance concerns, and now I learn that
Dodd, one of my favs, is a lying fuck as well. 

grrrrr.... 

be careful, use common sense and watch what you eat to avoid
cancer.  I don't think I would put a chip in my
body.  But, I hear you when you say you get relief.  That's
important.    
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