Breast Thermography – A “Heated” Discussion About Your Breasts

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Breast Thermography – A "Heated" Discussion About Your Breasts

By Dr. Garrett Wdowin on 11/27/2009

 

You may think mammography is the ideal way to screen for breast cancer but guess what? That isn't true.

Most mammograms detect breast cancer only after they have reached stage 2, or 1 million+ cancerous cells.

That's not exactly DETECTION or PREVENTION is it?

That's more of a confirmation. Plus you've now added harmful radiation to an already possibly grim diagnosis.

That's why Bodhi Body

physicians don't recommend mammograms as the preferred method for

breast cancer screenings, despite what you may hear from other medical

sources. Mammograms compress the breasts tightly which could lead to a

lethal spread of any existing malignant cells.

They expose your body to radiation

that can be 1,000 times greater than that from a chest x-ray — this

makes you vulnerable unnecessarily to further risks of

radiation-induced cancer.

What is Breast Thermography? Breast thermography takes thermal images of the breasts and surrounding areas to aid in the early detection of breast cancer.

The principle: Thermography assesses blood flow patterns, inflammation and function. Mammography does not.

 

 

How it works: State-of-the-art

breast thermography uses ultra-sensitive infrared cameras and

sophisticated computers to detect, analyze, and produce high-resolution

diagnostic images of these temperature and vascular changes.

Detection: The

procedure is both comfortable (no pain!) and safe using no radiation or

compression. By carefully examining changes in the temperature and

blood vessels of the breasts, signs of possible cancer or pre-cancerous

cell growth may be detected years prior to being discovered using any

other procedure. This provides for the earliest detection of cancer

possible. Because of breast thermography's extreme sensitivity, these

temperature variations and vascular changes may be among the earliest

signs of breast cancer and/or a pre-cancerous state of the breast.

Research: Breast

thermography has been researched for over 30 years, and over 800

peer-reviewed breast thermography studies exist in the index-medicus.

In this database well over 250,000 women have been included as study

participants. The numbers of participants in many studies are very

large– ranging from 37,000 to 118,000 women. Some of these studies have

followed patients up to 12 years. Breast thermography has an average

sensitivity and specificity of 90%.

Unique Capability: Just

as unique as a fingerprint, each patient has a particular infrared map

of their breasts. Breast thermography has the ability to detect a

pre-cancerous state of the breast, or signs of cancer at an extremely

early stage, and therein lies in its unique capability of monitoring

the temperature variations and blood vessel alterations produced by the

earliest changes in tissue physiology (function).

The procedure is based on the

principle that chemical and blood vessel activity in both pre-cancerous

tissue and the area surrounding a developing breast cancer is almost

always higher than in the normal breast. Since pre-cancerous and

cancerous masses are highly metabolic tissues, they need an abundant

supply of nutrients (blood flow) to maintain their growth. In order to

do this, they increase circulation to their cells by sending out

chemicals to keep existing blood vessels open, recruit dormant vessels,

and create new ones (neo-angiogenesis). This process results in an

increase in regional surface temperatures of the breast.

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