What is Thermography?

Whole Body Thermography give insight into your body health conditions, including Breast and Hormonal issues. Whole Body Thermography is a full body scanning devise that measures temperature changes before and after a cooling period is applied to the body.

We will be able to assess the Endocrine function, Digestive, and Brain function. It also assesses Dental and Reproductive health issues.

Thermography is a non-invasive and a safe procedure which uses digital infrared imaging to detect malformations and abnormal structures within the breast tissues. Unlike the mammogram which involves compression of the breasts, thermogram uses infrared sensors to actually detect increased vascularity and presence of heat. Thermography utilizes a principle that in pre-cancerous tissues and in the areas around a developing breast cancer has always increased metabolic activity and vascular circulation. And with that principle, it can be able to detect thermal signs which might detect the presence of a pre-cancerous state of the breast or if the breast is on the early stage, not enough to be detected by mammogram, physical examination or other imaging tests.

Thermography uses functional imaging which means it is capable of detecting physiologic changes but it cannot locate the exact area of suspicion inside the breast.

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women in the United States. It is also one of the leading causes of mortality in all races. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or CDC (as cited in: http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/breast/statistics/), in the year 2009, about 211,731 women in the United States were diagnosed with breast cancer while 40,676 women have died from it. And according to breastcancer.org, in 2011, an estimated 230,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer were expected to be diagnosed in women in the U.S., along with 57,650 new cases of non-invasive (in situ) breast cancer.

Mammography and thermography are two procedures used to detect the presence of abnormality within the breasts. Each one cannot replace the other. Both tests are adjunctive in detecting abnormalities. A physiologic procedure like thermography cannot replace an anatomical procedure like mammography and vice versa.  The two procedures if combined can determine the presence of defect but the two cannot determine if the suspected tissue is cancerous or not, only the biopsy does.