Breast Lump
Ninety percent of all breast lumps are initially found by women doing breast examination with roughly 90% of these turning out to be non-cancerous.
Women currently find 50-80% of all breast cancers, with their physician finding the remainder.
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The detection of a breast lump raises questions and concerns in every woman and man who finds one.
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Say what you will about BigPharma - but give them credit where credit is due.
For women who practice daily breast exams, they may notice changes in their breast occurring throughout the month.
These changes, while perceptible and measurable by FMTVDM, are the result of tissue changes occurring throughout the menstrual cycle of a woman.
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The following is an example of one of my early patients, who participated in the evaluation of changes in her breast occurring throughout her menstrual cycle.
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The FMTVDM measured values did not change by more than 10 MCAs over the duration of her cycle - despite perceptible visual differences; once again emphasizing the importance of measurement over appearance.
Further problems resulting from visual interpretation of breast images obtained with mammography concluded that yearly mammograms did not reduce deaths (mortality) from breast cancer.
As patients and doctors seek to better understand and identify changes in breast health resulting from InflammoThrombotic Immunologic Response (ITIR) and the potential ITIR Diseases (ITIRDs), the following flow diagram offers an alternative approach as we leave the field of qualitative imaging and enter the field of quantitative FMTVDM measurement.
Leaving the "I think" realm to enter the "I know" universe.
