Thermography, Detection, Breast Cancer
In this video, William Cockburn spends about 29 minutes speaking on "Thermography, Detection, Breast Cancer" at the 30th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About William Cockburn
WILLIAM COCKBURN, D.C. was licensed as a Doctor of Chiropractic at Cleveland College of Chiropractic, Los Angeles, California in 1975. The same year he completed a course of study at the Los Angeles College of Law. In 1976, Dr. Cockburn became a Board Certified Disability Evaluator and Impairment Rater for the State of California. He is a former Department Chairman in Diagnostic Imaging at his alma mater, The Cleveland College, and is also a former Instructor of Chiropractic Pediatrics and X-ray Diagnosis. Dr. Cockburn is the former Academic Dean of Physicians Academy in Dallas, Texas, a school of advanced diagnostic and clinical procedures for graduate physicians.
In 1987, Dr. Cockburn became Board Certified in Thermal Imaging, a non-invasive diagnostic procedure, which he has now taught worldwide. In 1989, he lost his mother to breast cancer and since that time he has written many articles in professional publications and has made many personal appearances concerning Breast Thermography.
Dr. Cockburn maintains an office in Los Angeles, California. He may be contacted by phone 562-699-7921, website www.breastthermography.org and e-mail [email protected].
Transcription
Thank you, everyone.
Before I get started, I'd like to to thank the Cancer Society for having me back, and especially Lorraine Rosenthal, who's been a real inspiration to me and has given me a tremendous amount of support here in the Los Angeles area. Some very interesting things are happening right now in thermal imaging for those of you who have been following the trend for the last ten or twelve years. You know, it's been a very rough road, but I'd like to make an announcement today. It's the first time it's made actually a public announcement other than the fact that it's been on the Internet for about a week. When I lectured here two years ago, I told you that we had a growing industry that was unregulated and that we had a lot of problems within the thermographic imaging community. And I'm going to give you some slides so you all know what thermal imaging is with laboratories that are not certified and doctors that are buying inappropriate equipment and therefore faulty diagnostics, which runs into wrongful death and malpractise in an effort to curtail that. A major international efforts been under foot for about a year and a half to two years, and it has culminated in a globalization plan that involves three primary individuals or three primary corporations. The big problem with the market or fee has been that there is no financial backing for it. Mammography being backed by G.E. and Siemens and the pharmaceutical industry and the major medical conglomerate has obviously a lot of money. Thermography is a very, very small industry. We estimated at less than five million dollars a year in the United States. The industry related to mammography and all of its peripherals is around eight billion. So a number of international players who have raised the level of play with mammography and the quality scientific standards of the industry have been going bonkers in the Pacific Rim. I gave a lecture in nineteen ninety four in Korea. There are now over 400 thermal imaging labs in Korea. Any see the second largest electronics firm in the world and Micron, one of the largest and publicly held infrared camera manufacturers in the world, have now combined forces to create a medical thermography association and teach physicians worldwide. And I'm very pleased to announce that I have been appointed the academic dean of that organization. What we're trying to accomplish here is to bring the science of thermography, which we all know exists and has been published into the medical mainstream, because every week in my practice, I get reports from patients and there's many of you out