| According to the National Institutes of Health, one | | | | change.What is Thermography? Thermography is;o |
| woman in 8, will be a victim of breast cancer in her | | | | Non invasiveo No radiationo Painlesso No contact with |
| lifetime. We know that our environment, with | | | | the bodyo F.D.A approved |
| chemicals and pesticides and hormone-laden meat, | | | | This quick and easy test starts with your medical |
| are all contributors to this. But also, mammography | | | | history being taken before you partially disrobe for |
| using ionizing radiation is problematic. We are faced | | | | the scanning to be performed. You do not have any |
| with the dilemma of how best to detect early breast | | | | contact with the equipment and your first 15-minute |
| cancer and do it as safely as possible without | | | | session provides the baseline of your 'thermal |
| exposing our patients to risk in the process. | | | | signature'. A subsequent session assures that the |
| No doubt you have heard of MRIs and mammograms | | | | patterns remain unchanged. |
| for detecting breast cancer, but let us introduce you | | | | Thermography detects the subtle physiologic changes |
| to thermography which gives women individualized | | | | that accompany breast pathology, whether it is |
| breast cancer risk assessment and provides the | | | | cancer, fibrocystic disease, an infection or a vascular |
| earliest detection available. | | | | disease. We can then plan accordingly and lay out a |
| In fact, breast thermography has the ability to warn | | | | careful program to further diagnose and/or monitor |
| women up to 10 years in advance-before any other | | | | you during and after treatment. All of your |
| procedure-that a cancer may be forming, thus | | | | thermograms (breast images) are kept on record so |
| allowing for prompt and timely measures to prevent | | | | any changes can be detected during your routine |
| it from occurring. We know that breast cancer | | | | annual studies. |
| survival depends upon its earliest possible detection. | | | | When should women be screened? All women should |
| Research has shown that if it is discovered in its | | | | be screened starting at age 20. Approximately one |
| earliest stages, the cure rates are excellent. | | | | third of all breast cancers occur in women under the |
| Who is at greatest risk for breast cancer? Your | | | | age of 45. Thermography provides a detection |
| chances of getting breast cancer increase if you | | | | device that can give a warning signal far in advance |
| have a family history of the disease although 75 | | | | of invasive tumor growth. Mammography, MRI, CT, |
| percent of women who get breast cancer have no | | | | ultrasound, and PET scans are only helpful once the |
| such history. Excess estrogen is the greatest single | | | | tumor is actually there. But by then it may be too |
| risk factor for breast cancer. | | | | late. Early low-cost, non-invasive screening is the |
| Thermography can warn women if they have excess | | | | most important thing a woman can do with regard to |
| estrogen within their breasts and the risk factors can | | | | her breast health. Thermography is the best method |
| be decreased with proper diet and lifestyle | | | | to do this. |