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Fast Facts on Breast Thermography 

• In 1982, the FDA approved breast thermography as an adjunct diagnostic breast cancer screening procedure.
• Breast thermography has an average sensitivity and specificity of 90%
• An abnormal thermogram is 10 times more significant as a future risk indicator for breast cancer than a first order family history
• A persistent abnormal thermogram carries with it a 22x higher risk of future breast cancer.
• The size of the studies are very large up to 85 thousand participants and studies have followed participants up to 12 years.Read more...

If you still haven’t tried acupuncture and are curious whether it’s worth your time and money, here are five encouraging reasons to give it a chance:

1. Your Side Effects are Awesome:  You may go to acupuncture to cure your neck and shoulder pain, and find that the pain diminishes. Meanwhile, your stress level, sleep quality, digestion, and overall mood improve too.
2. It gets to the root: Acupuncture treatments are deeply healing because they focus not only on the patient’s current condition, but investigate why their symptoms are manifesting and aim to treat the underlying root cause. 
3. It works: Acupuncture has been around since before recorded history. The earliest written record comes from a few hundred years before the common era. If it didn’t work, it certainly wouldn’t have lasted thousands of years and spread through hundreds of Asian medical lineages. Scientists try to understand how acupuncture works from a biomedical perspective. Some refer to its effects on fascia, the connective tissue that surrounds all our muscles and organs. Some point to acupuncture’s ability to stimulate the limbic system and autonomic nervous system. Some scientists claim in their studies that acupuncture is sometimes as effective as “sham acupuncture.” While they attempt to fit a versatile and non-linear medicine into a formulaic model with double-blind studies, the clinical experience of everyday practitioners and patients agrees with thousands of years of history — acupuncture works!Read more...

There's more to cancer care than ridding the body of cancer cells. Equally important is the goal of maintaining quality of life while undergoing treatment. Staying strong enough to fight the disease and maintain work and family routines during treatment should be part of any cancer care program. That's why patients should be offered integrative therapies to supplement conventional surgical, radiation and chemotherapy treatments.

Know your options:

Every cancer and every cancer patient is different. So different combinations of both traditional and integrative oncology therapies should be customized for every treatment plan. It's important to work with a knowledgeable oncology team to understand your options, how they work, and be sure that they're offered at your treatment center.

What exactly is integrative care?

Treatments for cancer typically consist of some combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. The combination of these treatment options with therapies designed to maintain quality of life during treatment is what is known as an integrative approach to cancer care. Therapies to improve energy and maintain the immune system during treatment, manage fatigue and guard against malnutrition are all critical. And the more therapeutic choices you have, the better you'll be able to customize a treatment plan that's right for you. These integrative therapies may include nutritional counseling, naturopathic medicine, physical therapy, chiropractic care, acupuncture, mind-body therapy, meditation and spiritual support. Patients should consider all of these when choosing a hospital and approving a treatment plan.

Naturopathic medicine:

Naturopathic care should also be considered. This can include a referral to acupuncture, lifestyle counseling and also natural non-toxic therapies — herbal and botanical preparations, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, homeopathic plant extracts, etc. — that help manage symptoms and encourage healing. Naturopathic clinicians address a variety of conditions associated with cancer including digestive issues, nerve damage, respiratory conditions and cancer- related fatigue. And your naturopathic clinician should have extensive knowledge of radiation therapy and chemotherapy, plus a comprehensive understanding of the treatments you're undergoing to ensure the right supplements are part of your treatment plan.

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Acupuncture promotes health and optimizes the operation of the human being holistically in all aspects; physical, mental and emotional. In terms of the ability to procreate a new life it is very important that the couple is healthy and managing the stress of life in the best way.
Acupuncture affects the reproductive system in the following way...