Israeli invention may revolutionize skin cancer diagnosis

[Behind the Aegis]

An Israeli company has developed what it believes is a breakthrough device to aid in the early detection of skin cancer.

The device, developed by Skin Cancer Scanning, is currently undergoing clinical trials at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva. It offers far more precise data than the doctor's naked eye, by using fiber-optic cables to scan for potentially malignant moles.

It was found to be 92 percent effective in identifying certain types of skin cancer - far more so than any apparatus currently available.

Skin cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer, and its incidence rate grows annually.

The disease is currently identified through a two-stage diagnosis - first, suspicious moles are examined by a physician. If the physician believes the patient is at risk, the patient undergoes a biopsy.

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[LeftishBrit]

1. Excellent news - very interesting!

Perhaps you might also want to post it in the Health Forum (but avoid the vaccine threads - they'd make the worst debates in I/P look like sweet songs of love and peace!)

[ProgressiveMuslim]

2. Shouldn't this be in the health forum?

[henank]

3. That would depend on whether you want to boycott it

since it's Israeli and all...

[ProgressiveMuslim]

5. Can you explain what this has to do with I/P conflict?

[Vegasaurus]

7. Since you are in favor of boycotts

I hope you don't need skin cancer treatment, or use of any other Israeli medical advance.

Or are you just boycotting ideas and food, not technology and medical advances?

[Violet_Crumble]

8. Hey, I boycott when I do my shopping! Plus my dad is prone to skin cancer!

And guess what? When it comes to treatment of skin cancer, we here in Australia are shitting all over the rest when it comes to advances in treatment.

Skin cancer vaccine trials to begin

The best way to deal with the problem of skin cancer is to stay out of the sun and wear sunscreen and hats if you are out in it. Oh, and stay out of solariums totally...

[Donald Ian Rankin]

9. I think you're missing the point of a boycott.

The goal of boycotting Israeli products is not - as I'm sure you'd like to believe (and, to be fair, as may be a partial motivation for a minority of those involved) - a barren sense of moral/ideological superiority.

It's to try to influence Israel's actions, and thus improve the lot of the Palestinians.

That means that

a) A boycott doesn't have to be absolute to do good - buying non-Israeli produce when there's an easy alternative, but not sweating it too much (as I do, when I remember, although with Passover coming up there may be some things I find hard to do that with...), does a little good, albeit not much (assuming you regard putting pressure on Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians as a good thing, which I do).

and

b) Boycotting medical advances wouldn't really help much, unless the Israeli manufacturer was making a profit from each case of skin cancer cured, which I think is not usually how these things work.

[azurnoir]

10. It was diagnostic, not treatment

but geez I guess without Israel the world would still be in the stone age right? But then again as we all found out from an oh so informative video posted here you can't boycott Israel if you watch Star Trek.

[Vegasaurus]

15. And you don't think diagnosis is important? nt

[azurnoir]

17. I think that in todays economy

in the US most insurance companies will make it one of those diagnostics that you are "allowed" to pay out of pocket for if you wish to have it done, the only exception will be those who have been diagnosed once already

[shaayecanaan]

16. Your parents probably boycotted Aspirin and Volkswagen cars, right?

-because they were German products (and in particular because Bayer and Volswagen had connections with the Nazis).

That doesn't mean that they would have refused to listen to Beethoven, or not have x-rays taken (which were invented by Germans). What your parents participated in was what was called a direct financial boycott. Its pretty simple, if the products originated from Germany, your parents probably refused to buy them.

The argument that you can't boycott Israel and still use computers, mobile phones, etc is fairly silly. For one thing, the people who try and make that argument vastly exaggerate Israel's technical accomplishments. The computer I just happen to be using an AMD CPU, (AMD does not have research or production in Israel). Even as far as Intel chips go, there are plenty of Intel chips on the market that were made without Israeli involvement, and Israel is a pretty small section of Intel's global empire.

The more important issue is that the point of a boycott is not to demonstrate your ability to absterge yourself from the produce of another country, but to place financial pressure and moral suasion upon that country by reducing their exports.

For my part, I think a concerted boycott by the European countries against Israeli products would be highly effective. The current dispute in the UK regarding the labelling of Israeli produce (Israel tries to avoid boycotts by shipping produce through Cyprus and labelling it as Cypriot) is one example of how sensitive Israel is towards boycotts.

[cali]

4. quite a few posts about discreet issues either in the WB and Gazo

or Israel, that are not connected to I/P issues, or only tangentially connected, are posted here. What is it in this one that you find so objectionable?

[Donald Ian Rankin]

11. I suspect it of being inspired by this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcHwyW9xOyI was linked to in a recent thread, and "objectionable" does not seem to be an unreasonable term to describe it; I suspect this OP is a follow up to that.

[Behind the Aegis]

12. Well, you'd be wrong.

I was reading Ha'aretz this morning and saw the story. But, the responses here and in LBN (I posted it there too as well as the health forum) certainly do say more than the words on the "page."

[azurnoir]

14. I thought ludicrous was a more apt

description for the video, the conflation levels Israel/Jew were off the meters, as to this thread even if the boycott was not the op's reason for posting it would only be moments before that was brought into the discussion

[varelse]

6. Be good to have it crossposted there at least (nt)

[Neo Atheist]

13. Clearly a tool to implant Zionist mind control devices

Skin cancer is a myth anyway. God wouldn't make the sun and have it cause people to die!

</Ahmadinejad>

[Idealism]

18. Good to hear of the meaningful work coming out of Israel.

[IndianaGreen]

19. Just in time to treat victims of IDF and IAF's use of depleted uranium

Known Illnesses inflicted by internalisation of DEPLETED URANIUM PARTICLES

GENERAL:
abnormal metabolism of semen: contains amine & ammonium alkaline
acute autoimmune symptoms (lung-, liver-, kidneyfailure)
acute myeloid leukemia (deadly within days or weeks)
acute immunity depression
acute respiratory failure
Balkan-syndrome
blood in stool & urine (occult and visible)
bone cancer
brain tumors
burning semen
burning sensations
chronic fatigue
chronic kidney and liver disorders
chronic myeloid leukemia
chronic respiratory infections
colon cancer
diarrhea
digestive problems
general fatigue
glandular carcinoma
Gulfwar-syndrome
headaches
heart attack
high blood pressure
high frequency of micturition
Hodgkin lymphoma
immunity loss & general infections
insomnia
involuntary movements
joint & leg pain
joint pain
kidney failures
leukemia
liver carcinoma
loss of memory
low blood oxygen saturation ( low HbO2)
low lung volume
lung cancer
lymph cancer
lymphoma
melanoma
multiple myeloma
myeloma
muscle pain
non-Hodgkin lymphoma
other malignancies
pancreas carcinoma
petit & grand mal fits
respiratory ailments
shortness of breath
skin cancer
skin damage: sweat glands with trapped du-particles
skin infections
skin spotting
stiffening of fingers
thyroid cancer
unable to walk
vomiting blood

CHILDREN
alimentary disorders
asthma
bladder & sphincter paralysis
blindness
complete range of known and unknown Congenital Defects
deafness
dyspraxia
headache
kidney disease
leukemia
lymphoma
malformations of legs, arms, toes & fingers
respiratory disorders
stillbirth
neural tube defects

FEMALE
abdominal pain
breast cancer
breast cancer at very young age (20)
cervix cancer
headaches
incontinence
joint pain
lung cancer at age 20 and no-smoker
lymphoma
menstrual pain
miscarriages
nausea
ovarian cancer
paralysis of digestive syatem
skin cancer
skin eruptions
stomach pain
suicide
thyroid problems
unable to walk
uterus cancer

MALE
{acute} headache
acute myeloid leukemia
arthritis
avoiding people
breathing problems {stridor}
chemical sensitivity
chronic myeloid leukemia
gastrointestinal disorder
hip- and leg pain
joint pain
lung cancer at young age incl non smokers
lymphoma
skin cancer
skin eruptions
stomach pain
suicide
testicular cancer
unable to walk

http://www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/VISIE/du-diagnosis.html