At the Camera Obscura and World of Illusions museum in Edinburgh, an exhibition on optical illusions is being held at the time of the facts. This is what allowed a woman in her 40s of British origin to discover that she was a carrier of breast cancer, the website reported. BBC.
The exhibition’s thermal imaging room scanned the British tourist, along with all other visitors. But Bal Gill noticed that a spot appeared on her left breast, while it was not on the right side.
Confirmed diagnosis
She takes a photo of the scan and does some internet research on her way home. She learns that thermography, a technique used in exposure, is one of the methods for detecting pathologies such as breast cancer. The diagnosis is confirmed by his doctor: it is a malignant tumor, the stage of which is early.
The museum director himself was surprised to discover that thermography could detect this type of disease. Several months of treatment later, she is in remission from her breast cancer.
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