Thermography dissed

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I saw this article in a very small town newspaper right beside my

small town. The woman is a 'holistic' practitioner.

 

http://www.pinkstrokes.ca/noys/kathryn.htm

 

Any thoughts on a response?

 

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My heart goes out to her. I can feel her pain. Yet, did she just rely on one clinic in getting her thermography screenings or am I misunderstanding this point. If something doesn't seem quite right, it's best to get a second opinion.The blog leaves unanswered questions, however. If she even suspected she had cancer, did she in any way address it naturally? It seems to me a holistic practitioner would have known the methods to implement. Reading this blog leads me to believe that she relied totally on mainstream medicine. And this is a crying shame.Even reading this woman's heartbreaking experience, I cannot sit here and say that mammograms are more accurate, because they are not. They too have failed to find cancers, together with giving

false positives, not to mention the excessive radiation the body receives, actually paving the way for future cancers. And there is the all too serious risk that those vices will actually make a tumor burst sending the cancer to other parts of the body.Even with the diagnosis of stage 2 cancer, there were alternative methods that she could have used instead of opting for removal of her breast. It looks like this lady was gripped by fear, which is understandable and common. Yet, all in all, it seems to me that a holistic practitioner would address her cancer naturally instead of opting for mainstream methods. She should be familiar with those risks which outweigh natural alternatives. Maybe she didn't mention it in her blog and she is implementing alternative means now. I really hope so.My Best,lostrin <lostrinoleander soup Sent: Thu, April 22, 2010 2:56:03 PM Thermography dissed

 

 

I saw this article in a very small town newspaper right beside my

small town. The woman is a 'holistic' practitioner.

 

http://www.pinkstrokes.ca/noys/kathryn.htm

 

Any thoughts on a response?

 

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Live on earth as if you want to stay.

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A holistic practitioner who got breast cancer, had it return, had a biopsy and then opted to have her breast removed by a mainstream surgeon? And who favors yearly mammograms, which have been proven to cause more cancer than they detect?

Kathy St. Denis

A Junior Kindergarten Teacher and published writer, Kathy found her passion for teaching early in life. In 1997 she discovered a desire to know more about Nutrition and Holistic Health Care and pursued a career by going back to school to receive a Nutritional Symptomatology Certification.

With an enlightened intuition and a desire to help others she followed her path to complete certification in: Energy Healing, Yoga Breath, Stress Management, Aromatherapy Massage, Weight Loss Coach, Raindrop Therapy and her Reiki Masters

I have to wonder where she got all those "certifications"? I can go to a community college and take a seminar in photograph over the weekend and get a "certificate" in photography. Doesn't make me a professional photographer though.

Wherever she got those wall plaques, too bad she evidently didn't learn nearly enough about healing cancer naturally. If her breast cancer returned and the major thing she did was have her breast removed it is quite likely it will return again.

Thermography is not perfect, especially when it is in the hands of a clinic that may be intent on selling therapies and products to make money. I don't know her particular clinic, but I will say that greed and unethical behavior is not limited to mainstream medicine.

oleander soup , lostrin <lostrin wrote:>> I saw this article in a very small town newspaper right beside my> small town. The woman is a 'holistic' practitioner.> > http://www.pinkstrokes.ca/noys/kathryn.htm> > Any thoughts on a response?> > -- > Live on earth as if you want to stay.>

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I'm so very frustrated by the harm this article could do to thermography.  I had the same misgivings about her credentials and skills as a holistic practitioner, particularly as she had a lump in her breast that she ignored AFTER having had breast cancer.  I think she might be a lovely but misguided woman.  However, she wrote an article in the public domain about an alternative therapy that unfortunately will have repercussions on other alternative therapies in large part because the article is linked from her wellness centre website.  Geez!

Thanks for the feedback, I've emailed the thermography clinic she bashes to see how they respond.Janet

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Truthfully, I'd no idea thermography was being touted as a mamogram replacement.

Thermography is for heat detection, is it not?

 

A neurologist wanted me to have one after a car accident some time back. I

agreed to it as his explanation for it sounded logical. I did not, however, go

through with the test.

 

I would have been required to sit naked, undraped, and legs parted in front of a

male technician for a period of time. When I discovered this was the only way it

could be done and that the male technician was the only person who was able to

do the test, at the time, I decided to not have the test performed.

 

Firstly, I do not understand how a thermograph can recognise cellular changes.

Secondly, I read anger in the woman's words. In truth, I do not understand how

she could have allowed herself to be so led on when she had cancer experience

and knew a lump had formed in her breast. Thirdly, assuming thermography does

have some way of detecting a cancer, she was foolish (sorries) to not get a

second opinion or even a third opinion when she knew she had a lump which did

not belong.

 

There is always predator and prey in every field. Too many so called

professionals go after a buck at a patient's expense. In the field of medicine,

such activity can cost a patient much more than cash.

 

I have had cancer. The tumor was not in an area which is mamogrammed. It took 15

years plus a huge weight gain for alleopathic octors to finally understand that

the tumor was exactly that. I was not, at the time, knowledgeable enough to

demand a biopsy in spite of their opinions.

 

As it happens, I do have dense breast tissue. I dutifully went for mamograms

after cancer until I finally got fed up. Each time, I would be called back in to

have a repeat and even a third mamogram. A friend, who is a nurse, told me that

the radiologists have very limited time to read the results and prefer to err on

the positive because they are not actually given enough time to really review

the scans.

 

Two years ago (my last mamogram), when they asked me to return, I simply said

" No. " I asked and was told that the hospital was NOT saving my mamogram results

from test to test and, therefore, had no baseline to compare. They were just

comparing to what they were used to seeing.

 

As doctors turn from their Hippocratic oath and deregulation continues and

spending cuts undermine all protections to which we were used, it is becoming

more and more important to find someone in whom to place your trust about

knowledge of that which is beyond your own.

 

I am very happy to be part of this little group. A thousand years ago, when some

folks knew things that alleopaths did not, those folks were burned as witches.

Can anyone else feel the heat rising?

 

I am very sorry for this woman but I do believe she is yet to understand that it

is herself as well as the snake oil liars in whom she placed her trust who is to

blame. Sadly, when a person is ill vulnerability is greatest. We each need to

listen to our best teacher who is our very own selves.

 

Kathy K

 

oleander soup , lostrin <lostrin wrote:

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> I saw this article in a very small town newspaper right beside my

> small town. The woman is a 'holistic' practitioner.

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> http://www.pinkstrokes.ca/noys/kathryn.htm

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> Any thoughts on a response?

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> Live on earth as if you want to stay.

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