逛旅游景点，查出乳腺癌

这个旅游景点确实改变了人们的生活。

A British woman was astounded to learn she had breast cancer after passing through a popular Scottish tourist site’s thermal imager, which detected the cancer. News of the serendipitous discovery was posted to the attraction’s website.

一名英国女子在经过苏格兰一处著名旅游景点的热像仪检查后，惊讶地发现自己得了乳腺癌。这一意外发现的消息被发布在该景点的网站上。

Bal Gill, 41, of Berkshire, UK, and her family had visited Edinburgh’s Camera Obscura and World of Illusions museum in May. After going through the thermal imaging room — a nifty exhibit that scans people’s heat signatures — Gill noticed a peculiar “hot spot” on her left breast.

今年5月，英国伯克郡41岁的巴尔·吉尔和她的家人参观了爱丁堡的暗箱和幻想世界博物馆。在参观了热成像室——一个扫描人体热信号的漂亮展览——之后，吉尔注意到她左乳房上有一个特殊的“热点”。

“We thought it was odd, and having looked at everyone else they didn’t have the same,” said the alarmed mother of two.

这位两个孩子的母亲说:“我们觉得这很奇怪，看看其他的，都和我的不一样。”

A few days later, Gill happened across a photo of the heat patch, which inspired her to do a Google search that turned up articles on infrared imagers detecting cancer. Gill’s suspicions were confirmed when she was diagnosed with breast cancer by an oncologist.

几天后，吉尔偶然发现了一张热斑的照片，这激发了她去谷歌搜索，找到了关于红外成像仪检测癌症的文章。吉尔的怀疑在她被一位肿瘤学家诊断为乳腺癌时得到了证实。

Fortunately, thanks to her impromptu mammogram catching the tumor early, doctors should be able to treat her cancer without chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Gill has undergone two surgeries, including a mastectomy, with a final operation slated for November.

幸运的是，由于她的临时乳房x光检查及早发现了肿瘤，医生应该能够在不进行化疗或放疗的情况下治疗她的癌症。吉尔已经进行了两次手术，包括一次乳房切除手术，最后一次手术定于11月进行。

Andrew Johnson, general manager of Camera Obscura and World of Illusions, was moved when Gill contacted him to share her story as breast cancer was an important issue to him and his team. He also found it incredible that their “thermal camera had the potential to detect life-changing symptoms in this way.”

当吉尔联系他分享她的故事时，暗黑和幻想世界的总经理安德鲁·约翰逊(andrew johnson)很感动，因为乳腺癌对他和他的团队来说是一个重要的问题。他还发现，令人难以置信的是，他们的“热相机有潜力以这种方式检测改变生命的症状”。

However, the medical community is skeptical. The camera’s catch was an anomaly, according to Caroline Rubin, vice president for clinical radiology at the Royal College of Radiologists.

然而，医学界对此持怀疑态度。据英国皇家放射科医师学院临床放射学副院长卡罗琳·鲁宾(caroline rubin)说，相机捕捉到的信号是一种异常情况。

While thermography cameras have the ability to map out aberrant heat and blood signatures associated with tumors, there is no evidence that they are “sensitive or specific enough to be a trusted method to detect breast cancer,” says Rubin.

鲁宾说，虽然热成像摄像机能够描绘出与肿瘤相关的异常热量和血液信号，但没有证据表明它们“足够敏感或足够具体，能够成为一种可靠的检测乳腺癌的方法”。

So despite Gill’s good fortune, the FDA advises against using infrared heat detectors as a substitute for regular breast cancer screening with a digital mammography device.

因此，尽管吉尔运气不错，fda还是建议不要使用红外热探测器来代替使用数字乳腺摄影设备进行常规乳腺癌筛查。