WHAT MAKES BREAST THERMOGRAPHY SO UNIQUE? 

• Thermography uses no radiation and poses no health risks to the patient.  As such, scans may be performed at any frequency necessary.

• It is believed that signs of pre-cancerous tissue, or early stage cancers that are too small to be found by physical examination or mammography may be discovered with thermography.

• Certain types of cancers will not be detected on a mammogram for various reasons, but it is believed that many of such cancers will be discovered with thermography.

• Difficulties in reading mammograms can occur in women who are on hormone replacement therapies, who are nursing, or who have fibrocystic, large, dense, or enhanced breasts.   However, these types of breast differences do not appear to cause difficulties in reading thermograms.

• Since thermography does not involve contact with the skin, the procedure is described by patients as painless.

• According to one study, an abnormal thermogram is the single most important marker of high risk for developing breast cancer, eight times more significant than a family history of the disease.

Therefore, in the absence of other positive tests, it is reported that an abnormal thermogram gives a woman an early warning that a pathological process may be occurring.  By closely monitoring her breast health with serial thermography, self-breast examinations, and clinical examinations, a woman has a much better chance of detecting cancer at its earliest stage and preventing invasive tumor growth.