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What is Thermography? What’s a Thermogram?
What is Thermography? And, what’s a thermogram?
The process of thermal imaging is just like having your picture taken with a cell phone and, just as fast and just as safe. But, unlike your camera, which is capturing light in the invisible ultraviolet spectrum, our camera is capturing light in invisible infrared spectrum and, ends up creating a picture of the heat distribution across the skin surfaces. The picture is referred to as a thermogram.
The resulting thermal patterns can be associated with inflammation, dysfunction and health conditions, and can help to support safe, early detection, intervention efforts and prevention, too. This is the focus of our Preventive Thermography.
To learn more, check out example images.
Is Thermography Safe?
The answer is a resounding yes.
With no radiation, compression or bodily contact, preventive thermography is 100% safe and pain-free.
It’s as simple as having your picture taken as you stand in front of a digital camera.
But there is no need to be apprehensive or bashful because the photographer has her back to you: our camera sends your live thermal image to a computer monitor.
Additionally, our camera is safer than your cell phone because it has no EMF emissions to impact your body.
So whether you want to image your breasts, organs, teeth or other body parts, you can rest assured that our thermography is 100% safe.
Is Thermography Effective?
Is Preventive Thermography effective?
The answer is a resounding yes when it comes to supporting early detection and prevention for men and women.
Do you know that mammograms look for masses and that approximately 97% of breast masses are benign? Or that all women get breast masses from time to time as inflammation gets stuck in lymph nodes and breast tissue?
This means mammograms have a high false positive rate that lead to over diagnoses and treatment, including chemo, surgery, and radiation.
In comparison, thermograms look for the blood supply that active cancers create (neoangiogenesis) in an attempt to distinguish inflammation-filled lymph nodes, masses and cysts from actual breast cancers.
In addition, the average breast cancer typically grows 7 to 10 years before it is large enough to be seen by mammograms, when at least 286 million cancer cells are present.
However, active cancers may begin creating a blood supply with as few as 256 cells, so thermographic signs may appear in the first years of growth, supporting earlier detection.
In fact, the more aggressive the cancer, the earlier thermographic findings may be visible. So, while inflammatory breast cancer is invisible to mammography, it can be very visible by thermography.
Also, while dense breasts can reduce the effectiveness of mammograms to as low as 30%, do you know that density does not impact Preventive Thermography?
Or that when thermograms are used in conjunction with ultrasounds that accuracy is between 95 to 99% for breast cancer detection?
You might be surprised to learn that we also use our advanced thermography to show men and women their sources of inflammation, and for women what is draining into their breasts, and provide proactive action steps to reduce inflammation.
Since chronic inflammation is a precursor to illness and disease, this approach supports prevention. Something that mammography cannot do.
Whether you seek early detection or prevention, you will find our advanced thermography helpful and effective.
Who Benefits from Thermography?
Preventive thermography is helpful for every man and every woman, especially those who are proactive and seek to learn sources of inflammation in their body that they might not be able to feel, that could lead to chronic inflammation, a precursor to illness and disease in the future.
Our Preventive Thermography includes recommended action steps, self-care education and local professional resources to support improvement and prevention.
Ideal for breast imaging, including women who don’t choose mammography because of dense breast or implants, because they are pregnant, nursing or because they choose radiation-free testing and/or prevention.
Also, for women using birth control pills and/or hormone replacement therapy. A risk factor for breast cancer is prolonged exposure to excess estrogen. Our service provides a Vascular Display Grade to monitor the level of estrogen/hormonal balance in the breasts.
Learn more with our Introductory Video.
What is Preventive Thermography?
Thermography is a health imaging technique used for breast cancer prevention and early detection. There are two approaches to thermography: basic thermography and preventive thermography, specifically, Risk Assessing Thermal Imaging (RATI).
Basic thermography focuses on early detection of cancer, whereas RATI takes a proactive and preventive approach. By combining Risk Assessing Thermal Imaging with preventive education and actively managing risk factors, individuals can intervene and potentially reverse their situation. RATI assigns a Thermal Activity Score to each breast, allowing for objective monitoring of the collective impact of various risk factors over time.
Preventive Thermogrpahy offers insights into risk factors, educates clients, and provides tools and resources to support prevention. Additionally, RATI includes Vascular Display Grades, which assess hormonal/estrogen balance in the breasts, a physiological biomarker.
So, preventive thermography offers a comprehensive approach to breast cancer prevention and early detection.
Why Choose Preventive Thermography?
Is It Covered by Insurance?
Who is a Candidate for Imaging?
What to Expect at an Imaging Appointment?
What if I Already Had or Have Cancer?
“How does thermography help me if I already had or have breast cancer”? It’s a twofold answer. First of all, cancer treatment is about addressing a symptom, i.e. a tumor. It is not about addressing the underlying sources or causes of the process that lead to the development of cancer.
Preventive thermography helps men and women to observe the sources of inflammation in the body that may have contributed to the process of cancer, i.e. unfelt jawbone infection.
If there is no cure for cancer until it’s underlying sources of inflammation or causal factors are remedied, preventive thermography may help.
Secondly, for whatever treatment is being applied for the cancer, our advanced thermography may help monitor the effectiveness of that treatment.
For instance, active breast cancers create their own blood supply, which creates heat and often, a cobweb of dilated vessels. If treatment is effective, a resolution or shrinking of the vascular pattern should occur. If not, then treatment adjustments may be warranted.
To learn more, see our Before and After imaging examples.
What’s the Most Common Life-Threatening Finding?
Many people ask us, what is the most common, potentially, life-threatening finding we observe? You might think it’s cancer or breast cancer but, it’s not. It turns out its dental related.
Dental care may result in jawbone infections we cannot feel and most dentists cannot see, diagnose or treat.
These infections may slowly drip toxins into the body and contribute to symptoms, conditions, disease, and death, albeit over decades.
When jawbone findings are present in preventive thermography reports, we ensure our clients know where to go for proper diagnostic evaluation and treatment.
To learn the significance of dental-related findings, consider chapter 6 in Better Breast Health – for Life!™ and these dental imaging examples.
How Sensitive is the Camera?
Our camera captures 307,200 temperature readings to 0.05°C sensitivity and 0.69mrad spatial resolution in a split-second. It is so sensitive that if you touch, say your cheek, with some of your fingers, which are typically colder than your core, we would see cold fingerprints on you image for over one minute.
We don’t want to have any artificial data on your images but, you want us to have a sensitive camera so you know we don’t miss anything important.
Our high resolution, highly detailed camera won’t miss those earliest possible signs of cancer, it’s warning signs or potential sources of inflammation.
Learn more about our quality and protocols.
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