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BREAST CANCER DETECTION
The key to breast cancer survival relies upon the earliest possible detection. If discovered in its earliest stages, statistics show that 95% cure rates are possible. Our office is dedicated to providing one of the most state-of-the-art adjunctive breast imaging procedures available.
Perhaps the most well known use for Thermography is the early detection of Breast Cancer. Areas of the body where tumors are growing are undergoing angioneogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels, to feed a growing tumor. This extra blood flow will show up as a warm spot on the image with certain typical features. Typically these warm spots will show up as much as 18 months before either a manual exam or a mammogram will detect an abnormality.
In the instance where a breast abnormality is detected, it is still considered medically appropriate to obtain a mammogram as well and if something is found to take all appropriate traditional care up to and including surgery. BUT, in the instance where Thermography detects something, and a physical exam and Mammography is negative, the affected patient has been given a valuable head start to go forward with a vigorous detoxification and Integrative treatment program to stop processes that will result in a malignancy later on. A negative Thermogram in the absence of detectible physical findings while not a 100% certainty (nothing in medicine is 100% certain) can give a woman at risk a strong degree of reassurance that things are going very well.
What makes Thermography unique?
While traditional medical tests such as mammography, ultrasound and MRI are based on finding the physical tumor, thermography is based on detecting the heat produced by increased blood vessel circulation and metabolic changes associated with a tumor’s growth. By detecting minimal variations in normal blood vessel activity, infrared imaging can locate thermal signs suggesting a pre-cancerous state of the breast or the presence of an early tumor that is not large enough to be detected by a physical examination or traditional medical testing. While mammograms can also be difficult to read in women who are on hormone replacement, have fibrocystic, dense, or surgically enhanced breasts, and thermography can easily read any type of breast tissue.
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