This procedure is totally painless and there is no compression or contact with the body. The test is non invasive, uses no radiation, and is F.D.A approved.

This quick and easy test starts with your medical history being taken before you partially disrobe for the scanning to be performed. This first session provides the baseline of your “thermal signature”.

A subsequent session assures that the patterns remain unchanged.

All of your thermograms (breast images) should be kept on record and once your stable thermal pattern has been established any changes can be detected during your routine annual studies.

Thermography offers the opportunity of earlier detection of breast disease than has been possible with breast self examination, doctor examination or mammography alone.

Breast thermography is a non invasive test. This means there is no contact with the body of any kind, no radiation and the procedure is painless.

Thermography detects the subtle physiologic changes that accompany breast pathology, whether it is cancer, fibrocystic disease, an infection or a vascular disease. Your doctor can then plan accordingly and lay out a careful program to further diagnose and /or MONITOR you until other standard testing is positive. This allows for the earliest possible treatment.

Regular breast thermography screening can provide an early alert for possible referral to mammography, sonography, or MRI to improve early detection by your doctor.

It takes years for a tumor to grow, and the earliest possible indication of abnormality is needed to allow for the earliest possible treatment and intervention.

Baseline

3 months

6 months

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12 months

This patient was age 37 when her first baseline thermogram showed a slight hyperthermic asymmetry in the upper right breast. The follow-up study showed the pattern had become more well defined and although clinical correlation did not find anything remarkable it was decided to repeat the exam again in a further 3 months, when again significant changes were seen. Mammography was performed at this stage with the thermographic guidance of the locally suspicious area at 1 O’clock to the right nipple. The mammographic findings were inconclusive and the patient was referred for a repeat mammogram in 12 months. Thermographic monitoring was continued and at the fifth comparative study at 12 months significant changes were still evident and the hyperthermic asymmetry (temperature differentials) had increased.

Immediate further investigation was strongly recommended despite a scheduled mammogram in 6 months, and at the patients insistence a repeat mammogram was performed which clearly showed a small calcification (1 mm) at 1 O’clock. Within one week a lumpectomy had been performed with good margins and the pathology confirmed as a malignant carcinoma (DCIS).

This patient has now had stable thermograms for the last 2 years and is expected to remain healthy.