BREAST THERMOGRAPHY

A NEW PARTNER IN EARLY BREAST CANCER DETECTION

By Tanya Tajouri, M.D.

Since its first large scale uses in the 1980s, breast thermography has become popular in the fight against breast cancer.  Thermography is recognized by alternative medicine providers as a safe, comfortable, and extremely sensitive procedure used to detect both a pre-cancerous state of the breast and the earliest signs of breast cancer.

Sophisticated cameras and computer systems are used to measure heat from the surface of the breasts and produce an image that can be evaluated for abnormalities.  Alterations in these images are caused when cellular changes increase blood flow, thus warming the breast.  Literature states that it is because of thermography's extreme sensitivity, these changes may be among the earliest signs of pre-cancerous and/or cancerous tissue formation.