Thermography – Early Detection of Breast Cancer

Thermography is using thermal infrared imaging to detect health concerns like breast cancer. Here’s the background on how this works.

In 400 BC the Greek physician Hippocrates wrote “In whatever part of the body excess of heat or cold is felt, the disease is there to be discovered.”

Temperature has long been established as a health indicator. It’s why when you see a doctor the nurse will do three things:

• take your blood pressure,

• take your heart rate,

• and take your temperature.

If your temperature is elevated, then there’s a health concern that something is going on in your body that needs to be addressed. But for some reason that same application is not applied to looking at a thermal scan of your body, which is what thermography does.

What is Thermography?

Thermography is using a scanner to to show the thermal infrared imaging that is going on in your body.

All objects emit radiation in the infrared spectrum, which occupies the electromagnetic spectrum between visible light and microwaves. You can see light. You can see what microwaves can do to reheat your leftovers.

And while the human eye cannot detect infrared radiation, modern technology has enabled us to “see” this part of the light spectrum. The best example of this would be night vision goggles used by the military to help solders “see” at night. The higher the heat source the clear the image that can be seen using this technology.

Thermography is the same application and looks at the heat radiating from your body. When areas of the body are under stress they have a warmer temperature and emit more intense infrared radiation. These are hot spots that can be detected through the use of thermography.

And the nice part of this application is that it’s non-invasive and non-destructive. This makes it a valuable tool in helping to pinpoint concerns to assist in the diagnosis of any type of health issue.

Especially in early detection of breast cancer.

Thermography versus Mammograms

The standard operating procedure in the medical community is using a mammogram for the detection of breast cancer. Yet it is important to understand that breast cancer doesn’t show up over night. It takes years for it to develop and may go undetected until it’s large enough to be seen in a mammogram.

The purpose of this post is not to suggest to women that you replace your mammogram with thermography. Rather, it’s to help women understand that thermography is a screening tool that can aid in the early detection of breast cancer.

Not only is this screening tool an aid in the early detection of breast cancer but there is no radiation applied nor compression to the breast tissue. Just a clear picture of the infrared radiation coming from the breast to see if there are any hot spots that need to be address. A 2008 study published in the American Journal of Surgery, and performed by the New York Presbyterian Hospital in Cornell, showed that thermography had a 97% sensitivity to detecting cancer cells.

And studies have shown that when you combine mammograms with thermography screenings and self breast exams you can detect cancer 98% earlier.

Thermography can be used as a screening device for the breasts and has a wide application for other health concerns like:

• carotid artery disease,

• digestive dysfunction,

• thyroid disease,

• skin cancers,

• musculosketetal conditions,

• and circulatory issues.

This means that thermography can be used as an early warning tool to enhance your ability to stay healthy.

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