Kane at the International Academy of Clinical Thermography. Kane, whose office is in Redwood City, reads the reports sent from Weber’s facility. Dur- ing a client’s visit at East Bay Thermog- raphy, Weber goes over the medical history, offers handouts on breast health and answers questions in preparation for the 15-minute acclimation period. After Kane’s office returns the report, Weber sets up a second appointment to review the report with the client. Upon leaving, each client is given her own re- port, along with printed images, to keep. Weber says she went into thermog- raphy because of her maternal grand- mother, who died of breast cancer. “I wish I would have known about ther- mography before she was diagnosed the first time she had breast cancer,” says Weber, whose own mother comes to her for screenings. “I am very proud to be doing something to help women have the earliest detection of breast cancer possible.”
Rita Rimmer, owner of Health Imaging, in Sarasota, Florida, likewise can’t imagine why traditional medicine doesn’t embrace thermography for early risk assessment. “Mammography finds the cancer only when it’s large enough to be a tumor,” says Rimmer. Like Weber, she points out that it has also been debated whether mammo- grams can cause some breast cancers. Referencing a book that she refers to her clients, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Breast Cancer by Dr. John Lee, she quotes, “The [mammogram] procedure is unpleasant and radiation is potentially harmful. Both tissue damage and radiation are known risk factors for breast cancer, so it may even be logi- cal to assume that mammography can contribute to breast cancer.”
Rimmer focuses much of her time on educating women about prevention. Her recommended reading list, gath- ered over her past six years of practice, also includes Dressed to Kill, by Sydney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer. The book, advises Rimmer, points to a link between cancer and bras. “This is obvi- ously information that women need to make informed choices.” Dr. Moshe Dekel of Oceanside, New York, has been performing ther-
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mography imaging and interpretation for his patients for eight years. He notes that the majority of his clients choose the technique because they don’t want to undergo the compression and radia- tion of mammography.
Dekel explains, “Breast cancer is a systemic cancer that happens in the breast because the immune system is overwhelmed. Since a thermogram is basically a physiology study, I include preventative protocols for breast cancer during the interpretive process. Then I show them what these practices can do for their health in general.” He shares his enlightened phi- losophy on health with every patient. “You are in charge of your health and your family’s health,” he affirms. “This means that you must educate yourself on the various modalities that will keep
you healthy, so that you can make the best choices based on data, rather than on fear.”
It appears that women who add thermography to their annual self-care checklist will get the gentle ounce of prevention that’s worth far more than a pound of cure.
For more information about East Bay Thermography , call Chelle Weber, CTT, at 925-389-9589, email Chelle@
EastBayThermography.com or visit
EastBayThermography.com.
For more information about Dr. Moshe Dekel, call 516-208-6617 or visit
DrDekel.com.
For more information about Health Imaging call Rita Rimmer at 941-330-9318 or visit
HealthyThermalImaging.com.
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