1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,840 Prepare to have your health questions answered here on Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions 2 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:12,080 with Dr. Todd Binkley, owner of Binkley Healing Center in downtown Ventura. 3 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:14,400 Now, here's Dr. Todd. 4 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:15,400 Good afternoon. 5 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:21,120 I am Dr. Todd Binkley, board certified non-force doctor of chiropractic and practitioner of 6 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:22,160 functional medicine. 7 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:27,600 The last two episodes of the show, we were talking about preventing breast cancer, stopping 8 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:33,160 breast cancer before it starts as a supplement to the conversation that we hear about every 9 00:00:33,160 --> 00:00:39,000 October focusing on earlier detection and funding more treatments for breast cancer 10 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:40,340 that you already have. 11 00:00:40,340 --> 00:00:42,840 So people were excited to hear about that. 12 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,200 I got a lot of positive comments about that. 13 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:51,320 I've had a health fair at the office with a dozen other practitioners last month where 14 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:56,080 we had over a hundred people pass through on a Saturday, got a lot of great questions 15 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:57,800 and response, that was all very exciting. 16 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:03,080 But the most common questions I got after these last two episodes of the show were just 17 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:08,840 more wanting more information about early detection and, you know, what's the, should 18 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:14,320 I get a mammogram, how often should I get a mammogram, at what age, what about thermography, 19 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:21,800 what about ultrasound and MRI, what's the best way to find out what I really need, et 20 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:22,840 cetera. 21 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:26,520 And these are not easy questions to answer because everyone's different circumstances 22 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:27,700 vary. 23 00:01:27,700 --> 00:01:34,040 What I try to do is arm people with information that they can use to make informed choices. 24 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:35,640 So here are some things to consider. 25 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:41,640 A study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology in 2007 says that breast cancers 26 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:47,840 were first identified by mammogram in 16% of women by a provider on an exam in their 27 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:58,000 office by 9% of the time, by the spouse, 2%, 75% of patients first identified their tumors 28 00:01:58,000 --> 00:01:59,640 by self-exam. 29 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:04,920 The National Breast Cancer Foundation.org website says adult women of all ages are encouraged 30 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:09,440 to do a self-exam, breast self-exam at least once a month. 31 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:14,960 And Johns Hopkins University Distinguished Professor of Breast Cancer states that 40% 32 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:21,000 of diagnosed breast cancers are detected by women who feel a lump, so establishing a regular 33 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,400 monthly self-exam is very important. 34 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:31,080 And a 2003 National Health Interview survey of 361 breast cancer survivors found that 35 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:36,960 57% reported detecting their breast cancer on their own either by self-examination or 36 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:43,820 by accident, and 43% reported their breast cancer was detected by mammogram. 37 00:02:43,820 --> 00:02:51,160 Mammography in women under 30 significantly increases the risk of breast cancer. 38 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:56,200 For this reason, mammography is rarely performed on women under 30, and its risks may outweigh 39 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:02,840 its benefit in women under 50, which is why the recommendation has long been by most doctors 40 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,760 to begin mammography at age 50. 41 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:07,760 That has changed. 42 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:09,520 They've reduced it to 40 again. 43 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:11,400 We're going to come back to that. 44 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:16,360 But everyone knows that radiation is bad and should be minimized as much as possible, and 45 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:18,560 there are studies on this as well. 46 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:22,200 So annual screening and diagnostic workup of 100,000 women. 47 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:28,200 This is a modeling study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Radiation Induced 48 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:34,360 Breast Cancer Incidence and Mortality from mammography screening, from getting mammograms. 49 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:41,240 Annual screening and diagnostic workup of 100,000 women aged 40 to 74, 35 screening 50 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:49,560 examinations per woman would induce, on average, 125 breast cancers, resulting in 16 deaths. 51 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:53,880 Women with large breasts requiring extra views for complete examination are at higher risk 52 00:03:53,880 --> 00:04:01,040 with more than twice as many radiation-induced breast cancers, 266, and breast cancer deaths, 53 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:07,960 25 compared to women with small or average breasts, 113 breast cancers, 15 breast cancer 54 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:09,000 deaths. 55 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,600 So these are estimates based on typical standards for screening. 56 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:19,080 Compare this to annual screening from 40 to 70 years, biennial every two years screening 57 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:27,160 from 50 to 74 years was projected to result in one-fifth as many radiation-induced breast 58 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:28,160 cancers. 59 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:29,280 So that's a lot of numbers. 60 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:36,800 So again, what they're saying is being screened every two years starting at age 50 will result 61 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:42,680 in one-fifth as many radiation-induced breast cancers compared to getting screened every 62 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:45,520 year starting at age 40. 63 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:49,760 So any radiation, including mammograms, does increase your risk of getting breast cancer, 64 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:56,920 but mammography, mammograms also dramatically reduce your risk of dying from breast cancer 65 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:00,520 because it can detect it much earlier. 66 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:06,600 For the standard recommendations of getting screened every two years from age 50 to 74, 67 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:13,000 23 breast cancer deaths will be averted for each radiation-induced breast cancer. 68 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:20,040 So that means you're 23 times more likely to identify and survive a breast cancer that 69 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:26,000 would otherwise go undetected than you are to get breast cancer from the radiation from 70 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,480 getting a mammogram every two years from age 50 to 74. 71 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:36,040 Nevertheless, the latest guidelines from the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, the 72 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:41,440 American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Society of Breast Surgeons, and 73 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:47,120 the National Comprehensive Cancer Network now advocate starting routine mammograms at 74 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:48,520 age 40. 75 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:50,820 So this debate is going to continue. 76 00:05:50,820 --> 00:05:52,160 There are no simple answers. 77 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:57,040 Everyone has to make a choice for themselves, but the general outlines are all radiation 78 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:03,000 is bad, some radiation is essential and can save your life. 79 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:09,780 Approximately 1 to 2% of screening mammograms identify an abnormality that necessitates 80 00:06:09,780 --> 00:06:16,600 a biopsy and around 80% of the biopsy lesions are benign. 81 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:21,560 One of the main things they're looking for when they find a reason to do a biopsy on 82 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,320 a mammogram is calcifications. 83 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:28,920 So calcifications are calcium deposits within breast tissue, which are little white spots 84 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,120 or flecks on a mammogram. 85 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:36,040 And they're common and they're especially prevalent after age 50. 86 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:38,800 And they're usually non-cancerous. 87 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:45,060 So a proper radiologist can interpret these findings to tell you whether they're likely 88 00:06:45,060 --> 00:06:47,440 to be cancerous or not. 89 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:52,200 But just to generally get a little better understanding about this, it depends on a 90 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:53,200 couple of things. 91 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:54,840 So are they big or small? 92 00:06:54,840 --> 00:07:01,720 So macro, large calcifications, large white dots or dashes are almost always non-cancerous 93 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:05,400 and require no further testing or follow-up. 94 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:12,880 Micro calcifications, so little fine white specks similar to grains of salt, are also 95 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:17,680 usually non-cancerous, but if they're in certain patterns, then they can be an early sign of 96 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:18,680 cancer. 97 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:25,800 So that's one of the major things that oncologists and radiologists are looking for on your mammogram. 98 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:32,480 Billions of women get mammograms every two years after age 50, some every year, varying 99 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:36,040 ages to start with depending on risk factors. 100 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:42,800 The general outlines to consider are that women with small, dense breasts are more difficult 101 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:43,800 to detect. 102 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:50,160 The test is less likely to identify a cancer early to justify the radiation risk. 103 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:55,080 And women with larger breasts require the study itself. 104 00:07:55,080 --> 00:08:00,560 The mammogram is going to use more radiation to do an effective test. 105 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:04,200 So the radiation from mammograms is always going to be a concern. 106 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:06,600 And it's painful due to the compression. 107 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:14,280 When they train oncologists to examine breasts with suspected cancer, they're trained to 108 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:20,360 examine the tissue very delicately because if you put too much pressure on a tumor, a 109 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:22,960 breast cancer tumor, it could cause it to spread. 110 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:27,400 And yet when you go in and get your mammogram, the radiologists put your breast in a vice 111 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:32,920 and clamp down hard so they can flatten it out enough to get a good image, which can 112 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:37,400 be painful and discourage people from getting regular mammograms. 113 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:38,600 I'm Dr. Todd Bankley. 114 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:43,000 You're listening to Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions to Almost Any Health Challenge. 115 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:50,560 We're talking about breast cancer prevention, early detection more specifically today, questions 116 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:51,560 about mammography. 117 00:08:51,560 --> 00:08:56,960 I did on the last episode, last two episodes, a long discussion about ways that you can 118 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:00,920 prevent cancer from occurring in the first place. 119 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:06,240 And the most common questions I got after that were around, you know, which form of 120 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:07,920 early detection is best for me. 121 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:09,080 And I'm sorry I can't answer that. 122 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:10,120 It's different for everybody. 123 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:14,120 It's a complicated series of things to consider. 124 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:19,960 And so the first part of the show, we've just gone over mammograms and the risk of cancer 125 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:24,500 from the radiation from mammograms and how you're dramatically more likely to discover 126 00:09:24,500 --> 00:09:31,320 and survive a cancer than you ever are to get cancer from the radiation associated with 127 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:32,320 mammograms. 128 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:36,120 But, you know, some people are going to do mammograms and some people aren't. 129 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:41,160 And because of that, mostly because people aren't going to do it regularly, many millions 130 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:47,720 of women do, but in spite of that, more breast cancers are discovered on self-examination. 131 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:53,980 So I strongly encourage every woman to do a regular self-examination at least once a 132 00:09:53,980 --> 00:09:55,640 month, preferably once a week. 133 00:09:55,640 --> 00:10:01,720 You can do it in the shower, go online and just Google breast self-examination if you, 134 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:04,920 you know, if you haven't done it in a while, just to brush up on the best ways to make 135 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:08,000 sure that you're doing that effectively. 136 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,760 And getting, learning how to do that well on yourself so that you notice when something 137 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:18,000 changes is the way most breast cancers are identified. 138 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:24,640 It's also important to keep in mind that the microscopic changes on that microcalcifications, 139 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:29,080 for example, that can show up on a mammogram will detect cancer earlier. 140 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:34,040 But it also must be said that most breast cancers detected on a mammogram are about 141 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:36,280 the size of a raisin. 142 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:40,920 And that's billions of cells that have been there for years. 143 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:45,700 And so, you know, that's early detection, but how early is that? 144 00:10:45,700 --> 00:10:52,520 So the other most common question I get about, you know, prevention, early detection is about 145 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:54,040 thermography. 146 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:58,400 So if you're a health-oriented person, if you're looking for alternative to standard 147 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:03,000 medical recommendations, then you may or may not have heard of thermography. 148 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:10,200 If you haven't, thermography uses infrared photography, heat detecting, photographic 149 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:14,960 process to examine the breasts to detect heat. 150 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:20,120 So if you have any kind of disease process going on in your breasts or any other part 151 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:26,880 of your body, that diseased tissue is going to be attracting nutrients to itself, increased 152 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:31,280 circulation is going to be responding to that disease process, and that will cause a heat 153 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,000 signal that is detected on thermography. 154 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:40,900 So the thermography has been around since the late 50s, and it's largely poo-pooed by 155 00:11:40,900 --> 00:11:42,680 the medical profession. 156 00:11:42,680 --> 00:11:48,920 There's studies continually to come out and say that it's useless to detect breast cancer 157 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:52,600 compared to getting mammograms every year. 158 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:53,600 But that's changing. 159 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:59,840 And it has been changing progressively over the years, largely because it's... 160 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:01,880 So there are several things. 161 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:07,980 It's much simpler to do a mammogram than to do a good thermography exam. 162 00:12:07,980 --> 00:12:12,480 When you're measuring heat signals from breast tissue, there are several things that you 163 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:15,120 have to do to make that test accurate. 164 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:18,520 The room has to have a very tightly controlled temperature. 165 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:26,160 You have to sit in the room after undressing and sitting in front of the camera by yourself 166 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:28,560 and wait for your body temperature to normalize. 167 00:12:28,560 --> 00:12:32,200 You have to make sure that you're not too hot or too cold. 168 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:34,640 They turn off the heating and the air conditioning. 169 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:40,720 So it's a little tricky to do everything properly to get a good test result. 170 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:44,320 And all practitioners of thermography are trained in this and they know how to make 171 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:48,560 sure to minimize any artifacts or... 172 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:51,960 They know how to optimize those situations. 173 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:57,080 So if you go get a thermography exam, it's available, widely available, Google Thermography, 174 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:59,200 it's available in Inventura. 175 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:05,920 It's a good thing to do because detecting a heat signal in any tissue in your body is 176 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:09,720 a sign of an inflammatory process or a disease process. 177 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:15,740 So as long as you're not going to get scared and run off and do something unnecessary based 178 00:13:15,740 --> 00:13:18,920 on that, it's good information to have. 179 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:26,520 And several reports say that thermography can detect cancer eight to 10 years earlier 180 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:28,520 than a mammogram. 181 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:33,520 Well the standard pushback against that in the medical community is that it's not as 182 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:34,520 accurate. 183 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:42,080 For example, a study published in Breast Care, the journal from Switzerland in 2016, showed 184 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:50,560 that the accuracy of thermography was 70% versus 77% for mammograms. 185 00:13:50,560 --> 00:13:52,200 Well that was 2016. 186 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:57,920 Here's a more recent study from the International Journal of Surgery published in 2023. 187 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:03,840 The title is Breast Cancer Preclinical Screening Using Infrared Thermography and Artificial 188 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:10,440 Intelligence and it showed that the sensitivity, well it compared the sensitivity of ultrasound, 189 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:16,640 mammograms, breast, self-exam, and infrared thermography for detecting breast cancer. 190 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:23,680 And the accumulated evidence showed that infrared thermography was equivalent to standard breast 191 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:29,840 imaging and clinical examination, meaning getting a breast exam by a trained doctor 192 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:32,280 on a routine medical visit. 193 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:37,520 And even more interesting is this is a study that was done in China with cameras provided 194 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:44,720 and an app on a smartphone that allowed women to do self-exams and send the data in over 195 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:53,040 the internet and use sophisticated artificial intelligence to analyze the data to produce 196 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:54,280 these results. 197 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:56,840 So that's something that's obviously not available here. 198 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:00,320 I have no idea when it might be available here. 199 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:06,320 And there's some obvious questions about controlling for temperature in the room and they do, they 200 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:11,280 did describe pretty well in the study the instructions that were provided to the women 201 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:18,620 doing these self-exams and it also incorporated a second leg in the study doing clinical exams 202 00:15:18,620 --> 00:15:22,100 with a similar system in doctors' offices. 203 00:15:22,100 --> 00:15:27,840 So it's something that hopefully will continue to be studied and it's a fascinating opportunity 204 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:35,860 to make it easier for any woman to do earlier, avail themselves of earlier detection without 205 00:15:35,860 --> 00:15:43,140 any radiation and any of the pain and other problems with getting in to do annual mammograms. 206 00:15:43,140 --> 00:15:50,220 There is another device that is being studied in Europe that uses a cone-shaped device that 207 00:15:50,220 --> 00:15:57,360 you can also both use at home or in a doctor's office using a liquid crystal thermography, 208 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:01,800 a different type of measuring heat but more accurate because they're putting a cup on 209 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:05,520 directly over each breast and measuring heat signals that way. 210 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:10,680 So obviously it's going to eliminate the need to control the temperature and the humidity 211 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:16,200 in the room and takes less time for you to wait to acclimate until both of those are 212 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,120 the same. 213 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:25,360 And this is these devices, it's called a Braster device, B-R-A-S-T-E-R. 214 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:29,760 They've been studying it for a few years now and it is becoming available in other countries. 215 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:35,200 It's not available in the U.S. yet but I'm going to continue to watch that and I'll let 216 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:39,560 you know as more data becomes available on that. 217 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:44,640 And most importantly, the standard thermography that is available here in the U.S. right now, 218 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:52,440 in Ventura, is getting better and better by virtue of the way they analyze the data that's 219 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:56,400 gathered by the infrared thermography itself. 220 00:16:56,400 --> 00:17:02,400 So infrared thermography is basically just a means of using a type of camera that measures 221 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:07,920 heat signals emanating from any tissue in your body, including breast tissue. 222 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:13,720 So if you Google thermography versus mammography right now, you'll probably get a search result 223 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:20,880 that says that thermography is nowhere near as good as mammography, mammograms for early 224 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:23,840 detection of breast cancer, but that is going to change. 225 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:25,740 It's changing already. 226 00:17:25,740 --> 00:17:32,080 This study in China is really profound in the data that it got showing that even having 227 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:38,360 people do self-exams, how amazing would it be to maybe rent a camera that you could hook 228 00:17:38,360 --> 00:17:45,040 up to an app on your phone following detailed instructions, collect images that were sent 229 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:49,960 in and then analyzed by artificial intelligence. 230 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:54,360 artificial intelligence is kind of scary because who knows what's going to happen in a whole 231 00:17:54,360 --> 00:17:56,800 broad categories of our lives. 232 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:00,320 But in radiography, it's already making huge inroads. 233 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:07,540 There's all kinds of studies out already showing that using computers that have absorbed and 234 00:18:07,540 --> 00:18:12,160 had inputted data from thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions 235 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:20,760 of previous images can diagnose and identify conditions on x-rays and CAT scans and other 236 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:24,640 images better than radiologists already. 237 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:26,440 It's an unfortunate thing. 238 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:28,640 And there's exceptions to that too. 239 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:34,800 It's good to have both, but radiologists, every radiologist that looks at x-rays, all 240 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:37,880 chiropractors are trained how to analyze x-rays. 241 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:41,480 I've looked at lots of x-rays and found things that other doctors have missed, especially 242 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:43,480 if somebody came into me years ago. 243 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:46,600 The most common example when I would catch something that somebody else missed is if 244 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:47,600 they went to the ER. 245 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:51,840 If somebody gets in an accident and they go to the ER or they get some x-rays, they bring 246 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:55,080 their films in and they find stuff that something was missed because they're not spending a 247 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:56,200 lot of time looking at it. 248 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:01,080 They're just looking for a fracture, something that needs emergent care, and it's not necessarily 249 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:07,000 their job to identify everything else possibly that could be showing up on that x-ray. 250 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:12,600 In the expanding use of computers that use artificial intelligence, compiling massive 251 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:20,760 amounts of data, looking at hundreds and thousands of scans to identify patterns, computers are 252 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:26,080 becoming better at that than the human eye in a well-trained professional. 253 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:29,680 And that's likely to be a good thing going forward. 254 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:33,700 These studies, for example, I think I forgot to mention, these studies were determining 255 00:19:33,700 --> 00:19:41,360 these outcomes by imaging people and then biopsying, then doing biopsies to confirm 256 00:19:41,360 --> 00:19:43,160 whether or not they had cancer. 257 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:48,800 So the only way they know the accuracy of these various tests is by doing biopsies on 258 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:53,340 them later and verifying whether or not these women had cancer. 259 00:19:53,340 --> 00:19:55,600 So they were, they're robust studies. 260 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:57,060 I'm Dr. Todd Benkley. 261 00:19:57,060 --> 00:20:00,760 You're listening to Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions to Almost Any Health Challenge. 262 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:06,440 We've been talking about the relative utility of various types of examinations to detect 263 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:08,960 breast cancer early. 264 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:15,040 And in review, it's important for every woman to do self-breast exams. 265 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:19,880 Most breast cancers are detected by breast self-exam. 266 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:23,840 That doesn't mean that's the most accurate way to detect them because you can't feel 267 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:28,200 a tumor on a self-exam until it's become a certain size. 268 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:36,800 Mammograms can find tumors that are smaller than that, and they can find evidence of microscopic 269 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:43,680 calcifications in breast tissue before anybody, even a doctor, can feel a mass on a breast 270 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:44,760 exam. 271 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:46,620 And those are all important things. 272 00:20:46,620 --> 00:20:51,160 And risk factors are important to consider, which I've mentioned before. 273 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:56,060 But the bottom line is if you're not getting mammograms, then thermography is a really 274 00:20:56,060 --> 00:20:57,720 good idea. 275 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:03,000 But in my opinion, everyone should do breast self-exams and thermography. 276 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:08,760 And given your risk factors, in discussion with your doctor or your family history, determine 277 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:13,240 whether or not and how often, probably get mammograms too. 278 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:14,920 There are exceptions to that. 279 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:16,320 Everyone's situation is different. 280 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:20,040 There's no simple example that applies to everyone. 281 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:25,440 So if you want more information on this, please give me the opportunity to have a consultation 282 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:26,720 with you and identify. 283 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:29,560 That is the most appropriate thing for you. 284 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:30,560 Everyone's different. 285 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:34,480 You're as different on the inside as you are on the outside. 286 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:40,840 Functional medicine is the use of diagnostic tests to identify conditions early enough 287 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:46,720 that you can usually heal them with better food, exercise, and supplements, and where 288 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:51,040 necessary make an appropriate referral to a medical specialist. 289 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:55,760 In the worst case scenario, if you get diagnosed with cancer and end up in an oncologist's 290 00:21:55,760 --> 00:22:02,200 office, they're not going to tell you about anything that you can do to maximize your 291 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:07,440 immune system function and give your body a fighting chance to kill off the cancer on 292 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:09,040 its own and heal itself. 293 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:15,040 They're going to stop, do whatever they can to minimize your risk of death. 294 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:19,840 They're going to recommend the standard treatments, standards of care, I mean, that you get the 295 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:21,560 same treatment everyone else does. 296 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:27,880 They're going to recommend radiation chemotherapy and surgery. 297 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:33,440 If you ask, can I take these supplements to boost my immune system at the same time? 298 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,200 A lot of oncologists are confused about that. 299 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:40,360 There are some really good ones that are holistically oriented, especially in Southern California, 300 00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:43,360 who are not, who understand that you can do both. 301 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:44,720 You can do all of the above. 302 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:52,800 You can do the standard radiation chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and in between the rounds of 303 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:58,440 those things, flood your river of life, flood your body with nutrients to give it a fighting 304 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:02,980 chance to heal and repair itself, maximize your immune system function. 305 00:23:02,980 --> 00:23:09,360 Something as simple as taking adequate amounts of vitamin D can dramatically reduce your 306 00:23:09,360 --> 00:23:13,600 risk of getting cancer in the first place. 307 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:20,000 Getting your vitamin N review, getting your blood level of vitamin D up to 60 can reduce 308 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:26,580 your risk of breast cancer by 80% compared to a blood level of 20, which is what most 309 00:23:26,580 --> 00:23:31,120 people test at if they're not supplementing vitamin D. 310 00:23:31,120 --> 00:23:32,420 Thank you for listening. 311 00:23:32,420 --> 00:23:35,800 As always, I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. 312 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:40,680 You can email me at drbinkley at binkleyhealingcenter.com. 313 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:45,800 You can text me at 805-218-3939. 314 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:46,800 Look at that. 315 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:48,760 I just gave out my cell phone. 316 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:50,840 Just so you know, my cell phone is always off. 317 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:52,740 If you call, I never answer the phone. 318 00:23:52,740 --> 00:23:54,720 You can leave a voicemail and I'll call you back. 319 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:58,400 The best way to reach me is via text or email. 320 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,040 Thank you for tuning in. 321 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:04,160 Do something this weekend to be healthier than you were last weekend. 322 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:05,160 Eat some vegetables. 323 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:06,160 Do you have some vegetables? 324 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:07,560 Are you growing vegetables on your own? 325 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:12,600 The best way to get more vegetables in your diet is to plant some in your own garden because 326 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,000 then you're going to be attached to them. 327 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:15,440 You're not going to let them go to waste. 328 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,520 You're going to be watching them grow and you're going to want to eat them. 329 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:22,200 Add some more vegetables to your diet to be healthier this weekend than you were last 330 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:23,360 weekend. 331 00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:24,840 Have a fabulous weekend. 332 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,080 See you next Friday at 2 p.m. 333 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:33,600 You've been listening to Safe, Effective Natural Solutions with Dr. Todd Binkley. 334 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:38,120 If you have a health question you want discussed on the show, email your health 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