Breast Screening
While mammography relies upon finding the physical tumor, thermography is based on detecting new blood vessels and chemical changes associated with a tumor’s genesis and growth.
By detecting minute variations in normal blood vessel activity, thermography can frequently suggest a pre-cancerous state of the breast or the presence of an early tumor that is not large enough to be detected by physical examination or mammography.
History of Thermal Breast Imaging
In 1982 and again in 2005, the FDA approved breast thermography as an adjunctive breast screening procedure. Thermography is not a stand alone examination. Along with your physician's direction, the proper secondary screening can be determined should the thermal images indicate a problem.
