EARLY DETECTION MEANS LIFE 

Breast cancer is the most common cancer of women, and the risk increases with age.  Risk is also higher in women with a positive family history, women without children, and women who have had their first child after age 30.  Current research indicates that 1 in every 8 women in the US will get breast cancer in their lifetime.

It has been determined that no one method of examination alone will serve all the needs in early breast cancer detection.  Thermography's role is in addition to mammography, not in lieu of.  Thermography does not replace mammography and some feel that mammography not replace thermography ... it is recommended that the tests complement each other.  It is believed that it is thermography's unique ability to see the abnormal heat changes produced by the diseased breast tissue that allows for extremely early detection.

Since it has been determined that 1 in 8 women will get breast cancer, some feel that practitioners must use every means possible to detect cancers when there is the greatest chance for survival.  It has been suggested that proper use of breast self-exams, physical exams, thermography, and mammography together provide the earliest detection system available to date.  If treated in the earliest stages, cure rates greater than 95% are possible.