This is SafeTouch® ~ SafeTouch® is Peace of Mind
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- SafeTouch takes some of the anxiety out of finding a breast lump
- SafeTouch makes it easy to map the breast lump once it is found
- SafeTouch gives you confidence the lump you find will be found again
Welcome to SafeTouch®
Every woman seems to know someone who has suffered from breast cancer.
About 220,000 American women were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 and approximately 40,000 women died.
(Only lung cancer caused more cancer deaths in women.)
There are about 10 benign breast lesions for every discovered breast cancer. At Rusin Medical Devices. PLC, we understand the fear and concern involved with finding a breast lesion. To decrease the fear and improve communication regarding breast lesions, we developed SAFETOUCH®. SAFFETOUCH® is an inexpensive, simple to use product for mapping the location of discovered breast lesions. When SAFFETOUCH® is used. everyone involved is dealing with the same lesion. There is a map, a permanent record of the discovered breast lesion. Anxieties go down, certainty goes up, communication improves and the woman becomes a partner in the workup of the lesion rather than an object acted upon.
A new tool in the war against breast cancer.
1. What is SafeTouch?
SafeTouch is an easy to handle, thin, square, transparent plastic sheet with a numbered grid on its upper surface.
SafeTouch is used to map the location of breast lumps, once they are found during a self breast examination at
home or as part of an exam in the physician's office. Once the breast lump is found,
the SafeTouch sheet is placed over the breast and the location of the lump is marked with a marking pen
that comes with the SafeTouch Kit. You will then have a map of the location of your breast lump,
which you can take to the next examiner.
2. Why should you use SafeTouch?
a. SafeTouch improves care. When you use SafeTouch, you more accurately locate the breast lump so it is easier for the next examiner to find it. You will have less explaining to do.
b. You become a participant in your care and not an 'object being acted upon'.
c. Improved communication benefits everyone.
d. Many centers arc now pretreating breast cancers with chemotherapy and radiation prior to surgery.
Using SafeTouch is invaluable for mapping breast lumps prior to treatment with radiation/chemotherapy,
which might make the lump more difficult to find.
3. Where can you get your SafeTouch Kit?
SafeTouch is very new and many physicians are unaware of it. For now SafeTouch is available through our
website and a few food coops in the Twin Cities area.
For more information on the history of SafeTouch or instructions for proper use, please browse through our web site. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have further questions.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Dr. James D. Rusin M.D., MBA
SafeTouch(TM) Marker Sheet Kit
$12.00
The SafeTouch™ marker sheet consists of a plastic sheet preprinted with a center circle for orientation and a numbered grid for breast lump localization. The underside of the marker sheet has areas of light adhesive to anchor the sheet while in use. SafeTouch(TM) Marker Sheet Kit includes marker.
The SafeTouch™ marker sheet consists of a plastic sheet preprinted
with a center circle for orientation and a numbered grid for breast lump localization. The underside of the marker sheet
has areas of light adhesive to anchor the sheet while in use. The marker sheet is used
to mark or report the position of suspected breast lump(s) to assist a physician or care provider in relocating a
lump, for further evaluation.
The SafeTouch(TM) marker sheet is the invention of Dr. James D. Rusin, MD, MBA, a board certified Family Practitioner with over 20 years of clinical experience. Over the years, he noticed that he as well as his medical and surgical colleagues would have difficulty relocating suspected breast lump(s). This simple but nagging observation became Dr. Rusins' inspiration to find a solution to a practical, easy, and accurate method to relocate breast lumps. After several years of extensive development, the SafeTouch(TM) marker sheet was created by Dr. Rusin. Dr. Rusin feels confident that this marker sheet will readily improve the accuracy of relocating breast lumps by medical care takers and thereby have an immediate positive impact upon women's health care.
This innovative marker sheet is new and not available everywhere yet. Click here to order now!
If your health care provider is not using SafeTouch™ marker sheets yet please direct them to this
web site for more information about how to obtain this helpful tool.
One of Dr. Rusins life long goals has been to develop a product that had an impact. SafeTouch™ marker sheets could help save the lives of women with breast cancer, lumps, or disease, and that would be quite an impact.
Please take time to review this site and share this innovative
marker sheet information with anyone that may be interested.
Contact information is conveniently
located on the bottom of every page. Thank You!
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"... I have had an opportunity to use the product and can vouch
for its reliability in reproducing for a surgeon the location
of a suspicious lump."
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Medical Economics May 21, 2004 Six months to live? I'll start a business Determined to create a lasting legacy, this doctor reacted to his diagnosis in a less-than-conventional way. I am a physician and I am a cancer patient, and I have to say that being a physician is a lot more fun. In October 1998, I was practicing family medicine in a suburb of Minneapolis. While lifting a bucket of my homemade beer, a stab of pain seared through my back. I half expected to turn around and see someone holding a bloody knife. Since there wasn't anyone there, I convinced myself I had strained a muscle. I took some Advil, used a heating pad, and tried to ignore the pain. It was not to be ignored.... |
 Thu, Jul. 03, 2003
A new tool, A doctor who is fighting his own cancer focuses on a product to help others
BY JENNIFER BJORHUS Dr. James Rusin may not live to see his fledgling company, Rusin Medical Devices, listed on a stock exchange. Drugs have subdued the cancer that destroyed one of his vertebrae, but left his hands and feet numb. New drugs that might push the disease into remission are still a year away from market. Rusin's faceoff with cancer has not shaken his hope that the startup company he launched shortly after his diagnosis in 1998 will help others struggling with the disease. Rusin Medical sells a simple-to-use kit that helps women chart the location of breast lumps that may be cancerous. Click here to read the rest of the story... Used with permission from St. Paul Pioneer Press. |