Pain Free Breast Screening

Early detection may make a difference.

Every woman, 18 or 80, is at risk for breast cancer. Breast cancer is occurring more frequently now than ever.

One in Eight Women Will Get Breast Cancer at Some Point in Their Life

In 1950, one in twenty women developed breast cancer, and usually at sixty or seventy years of age. Now breast cancer occurs in one of every eight women and has involved more young women than ever before! The choices you make today to care for your breasts may determine your fate. Detecting the disease early may give you a 97% survival rate and real options for treatment. The alternative is deadly.

You have likely tried self examination of your breasts as recommended by the American Cancer Society. However, it is difficult for anyone but an expert to find a lump until it has grown to about 1 inch in diameter. This is not “early detection” as the disease is likely to have spread. Your physician may have urged you to get a mammogram, but you have hesitated because you know the compression will be painful and, despite reassurances, you are concerned about the x-ray radiation. The truth is that a mammogram is a limited test, especially in pre-menopausal women, or women taking hormone replacement therapy. X-ray radiation certainly is a real risk in developing breast cancer.

Now consider thermography. It has been developed over the past thirty-six years in major medical universities and women’s clinics around the world. Thermography does not involve compression or any form of physical contact. A thermagram is a passive non x-ray technique that has become the accepted means of screening for breast disease in many developed countries.It creates a digital map of your body that illustrates heat patterns — patterns that may detect some condition or abnormality. It uses a scanning-type infrared camera that measures your body surface temperature, presenting the information as a digitized image. These thermal images (called thermograms) are analyzed for abnormalities that may be signs of disease in your body. Additionally, since your body is thermally symmetrical if normal, thermal asymmetries can indicate problems.

With the development of an objective criteria system in 1975 at the prestigious Pasteur Institute in France, thermography has emerged as a proper science and reliable means of screening for breast disease. Thermography may provide earliest detection of breast cancer and even pre-cancerous changes.

Thermography has provided many women with a very safe and sensitive form of screening for breast diseases with discrete and personalized care. Thermogram is risk free, and thus does not require a referral from a physician.