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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Computerized Thermal Imaging CIO (formerly COII) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Smartypts who wrote (4368)	6/26/2000 3:13:00 PM
From: A.L. Reagan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6039

Smartypts, here's $380K Yuri's progress after two years post-grant w. the CTI/TMI "system": wrtv.yourhealthtoday.com ---------------------------------------------------------- Edit: I did like the quote "we'll never be more accurate than a biopsy." Let's see if I have this right. "Ma'am, with respect to that lump in your breast, if you want to know for sure I'm afraid we'll have to do a biopsy. On the other hand, if you don't want to know for sure, we have this other testing gizmo that won't hurt a bit, and then we can all sit around and guess at the results." -------------------------------------------------------- If color-coding cancer cells or tracking tumors with a PET scan doesn't lead to a cure for cancer, another breakthrough area could lie in thermal imaging. ``The technology is similar to what we saw in the Gulf War and on what police use on those 911 shows to look for a suspect behind a bush,'' said Dr. Yuri Parisky, a USC radiologist. Parisky is testing thermal imaging as a method to detect breast cancer as compared to a benign lesion. Again, it's a promising hypothesis that is just now entering the human testing stage. Cancer tumors seem to give off more heat than healthy cells. Parisky and his colleagues aren't exactly sure why, but they think it could be related to cancer's unique ability to recruit blood vessels that help it grow and form a sort of scaffolding for the tumor or lesion to spread. Since more blood is going to that area, there should be more heat. Another theory: Cancer's higher metabolism and turnover rate generates more heat. Thermal images peer down into the cellular level. Researchers use a sophisticated computer program to locate the hot or malignant cells. So far, Parisky said, analysis of thermal images showed that 40 percent of the patients in his study could have been spared a painful biopsy to check out a suspicious mass detected in a mammogram. He hopes to improve those odds. ``We've done a hundred or so patients with very promising results,'' Parisky said. ``We'll never be more accurate than a biopsy, but in the patients we did, it correctly identified 96 to 97 percent of the cancer.'' The only cancerous incident it missed was a DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ, a less invasive form of breast cancer) measuring about 1/10th of an inch, and refinements in the detection method may one day eliminate those oversights. ``Forty percent of the women in our study wouldn't have had to go into surgery,'' Parisky said. ``That's our starting point and we're going to do better.''