What are the advantages of thermography as an investigative tool?
• Unlike mammography and some other imaging modalities, thermography does not require radiation, compression, contact, or intravenous injection. As such, Digital Infrared Imaging is a very comfortable procedure which poses absolutely NO HEALTH RISK to the patient. • While mammography relies primarily on 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, infrared imaging can frequently suggest a pre-cancerous state of the breast or the presence of an early tumor that is not yet large enough to be detected by physical examination or mammography. • Difficulties in reading mammograms can occur in women who are on hormone replacement, are nursing, or have fibrocystic, large, dense, or enhanced breasts. These types of breast differences do not interfere with the thermography scans. • Studies show that an abnormal thermographic image
