Dynamic response to heat--a novel physical characteristic of breast cancer

Chengli Song; Colin A Purdie; Stuart I Brown; Timothy Frank; Jayant S Vaidya

doi:10.1016/j.ijsu.2008.02.002

Dynamic response to heat--a novel physical characteristic of breast cancer

Chengli Song, Colin A Purdie, Stuart I Brown, Timothy Frank, Jayant S Vaidya

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Abstract

We report a novel observation about breast cancer. We imaged 6 fresh pathological specimens of breast cancer (1 mastectomy and 5 lumpectomies) with a sensitive infrared camera. We found that, following exposure to hot air for 1min, the cancers warmed up much less than the surrounding normal breast with a difference ranging from 12 to 20 degrees C. We believe that this physical property of cancer should be explored and may give us better insight into the nature of cancer, its diagnosis (including intraoperative diagnosis) and targeted treatment.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	357-358
Number of pages	2
Journal	International Journal of Surgery
Volume	6
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsu.2008.02.002
Publication status	Published - 2008

Keywords

Body Temperature
Breast Neoplasms
Female
Hot Temperature
Humans
Mastectomy
Mastectomy, Segmental
Reference Values
Thermodynamics
Tissue Culture Techniques

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