Thermography is used to detect and prevent breast cancer 10 years before mammography does.
What makes thermography so unique:
While mammography, ultrasound, MRI, and other structural imaging tools rely primarily on finding the physical tumor, DII (digital infrared imaging) is based on detecting the heat produced by increased blood vessel circulation and metabolic changes associated with a tumor’s genesis and growth. By detecting minute variations in normal blood vessel activity, infrared imaging may find thermal signs suggesting a pre-cancerous state of the breast or the presence an early tumor that is not yet large enough to be detected by physical examination, mammography, or other types of structural imaging.
Difficulties in reading mammograms can occur in women who are on hormone replacement, nursing or have fibrocystic, large, dense, or enhanced breasts, however these types of breast differences do not cause difficulties in reading digital infrared scans.
Who will benefit most from thermography
Women of all ages can benefit from breast thermography screening. However, it is especially useful for younger women (ages 20-40) whose denser breast tissue makes it more difficult for mammography to be effective, for women who have fibrocystic breasts or implants, and for those who, for many reasons, are unable to undergo routine mammography.
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