Breast Thermography
What Is Breast Thermography?
Breast thermography is a test that can assist in monitoring breast health and early changes associated with breast disease. It is safe, contact free and painless.
Breast thermography can provide women with an early alert of potential problems, and with that an opportunity to look at diet, lifestyle and other factors to help reduce the chances of a problem developing further. Women who want to take a pro-active approach to their breast health find great value in the additional information provided by thermography.
Breast Thermography Enables You To:
- Establish your baseline thermal pattern
- Monitor any changes in these patterns over time
- Assess diet, lifestyle and other interventions
Breast Thermography is:
- Suitable for women of all ages
- Contact-free
- Painless
- Radiation-free
- 100% safe
- FDA approved
How Does it Work?
Thermography is based on the scientific premise that before the growth of abnormal cells can occur, an increased blood supply must be circulated to the growth area. Breast thermography measures the heat generated by the circulation of blood in the breast during this process. Breast thermography can identify women who are at risk so they can be monitored more closely and work with their health care professional to set preventative strategies in place.
Anatomical tests, such as mammograms and ultrasound, rely on finding physical lesions (lumps). Breast thermography is a physiological test that can identify abnormal blood vessel circulation within the breast. Because physiological changes are known to precede anatomical changes, an abnormal thermogram can often be the first warning sign of an increased risk for breast cancer. Both anatomical and physiological information is valuable in fully assessing breast health.
Is Thermography a Standalone Test?
Breast thermography is not a stand-alone tool in the screening and diagnosis of breast cancer. It is adjunctive. We can not ignore the tremendous role of thermography as an early risk indicator or as a tool for monitoring treatment. When a thermogram is positive, a closer look at the patient's diet, exposure to environmental pollution, toxins and lifestyle is in order. Clinical blood work in addition to ultrasound and mammography is essential. When mammography and blood work are negative or equivocal, thermographic monitoring on a quarterly to semi-annual basis should be performed in those patients with suspicious thermograms.
Since it has been determined that 1 in 9 New Zealand women will develop breast cancer, we must use every means possible to detect cancers when there is the greatest chance for survival.
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