Breast Cancer Screening
Early Detection Saves Lives!
What is thermography?
▪ A
non-invasive procedure which uses an infrared camera to take pictures of
your infrared image
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Your Digital Infrared Thermal Image (DITI) is used by a health care
practitioner to help diagnose pathology in your body
Why use thermography?
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SAFETY! There is no
radiation involved with the technology
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As a non-invasive technology, there is
no contact with your
body
Total body thermal imaging
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The Digital Infrared Thermal Image (DITI) of the whole body can be a
helpful evaluation and assessment tool
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Detect abnormalities such as tumors, injury, and inflammation on the
organs, musculoskeletal system, and nervous system
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Thermal Imaging detects changes when other studies can not because it
detects changes is physiology, not anatomy
Other advantages of breast thermography
Certain circumstances often interfere with mammography accuracy. This
often leads to more mammography, ultrasound, or tissue biopsy!
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Fibrocystic Breasts
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Healthy and/or young glandular breast tissue
These circumstances do not interfere with thermography!
Mammography vs. thermography for women at high breast
cancer risk
▪ When the patient is getting early mammography to detect breast cancer
because she has a strong family history
-Young, healthy breasts do not demonstrate
early cancer well on mammogram and
do not interfere with early detection in thermography
-Why radiate breast tissue early (cancer
promoting!) if it's less accurate than getting a thermogram?
Does insurance reimburse thermography?
▪ This depends on the body area being studied and the insurance company
▪ Thermography IS an
FDA approved
technology