Breast Cancer Screening with Medical Thermology

Forty years after the declaration of the War on Cancer, breast cancer is the most common form of cancer for women and second only to lung cancer as the leading cause of cancer death.^{1, 2} Forty-five years of research and $90 billion spent by the US National Cancer Institute alone have produced new treatments that save lives, but most of these treatments are effective only with early detection.³ Women need to start screening in their forties to achieve life-saving early detection, and mammography just isn’t very effective until menopause decreases breast density.⁴

The prevailing screening programs haven’t demonstrated any ability to save women’s lives because of an over-reliance on mammography and are facing elimination.⁵ The evolving guidelines recommend a customized screening program that considers each woman individually and applies a multi-modality approach using the various means of early detection appropriate to her age and risk factors.⁶

Breast thermology (thermography, Digital Infrared Imaging) has been available for more than sixty years after the discovery that abnormally high heat patterns are associated with breast cancer.⁷ At first, breast thermology wasn’t widely applied because the basis of these heat patterns wasn’t adequately understood, it was unique as a means of functional imaging, and Medicine had settled on mammography as singularly sufficient for breast cancer screening.⁸ However, progress in basic science has validated the fundamentals of breast thermology, and clinical trials have demonstrated the potential for high sensitivity and specificity.^{9, 10}

Breast thermology evaluates certain metabolic features and blood vessel characteristics that can indicate breast cancer.^{9, 10} The effectiveness of breast thermology isn’t affected by breast density, implants, prior biopsies, large or small breast size, pregnancy or lactation.

Thermographic equipment is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration but to amazingly sparse standards, far less than for mammographic equipment.¹¹ While that has promoted innovation, it has also fostered poor practices from some providers. We founded Therma-Scan to provide women with the life-saving ability of breast thermology for early detection, with relentless scientific innovation and an unwavering commitment to quality.¹² Therma-Scan established the Marseilles (TH) system as the standard reporting system for breast thermology in the world.¹³ Therma-Scan pioneered the quantitative analysis of medical infrared imaging and developed the ‘cold- challenge’ as a means to distinguish a characteristic property of breast cancer from incidental features.¹⁴

Therma-Scan is the premier provider of medical-grade thermology in the world.¹² We partner with clinics throughout the US and Canada to offer breast thermology to women and their healthcare providers as a reliable part of a breast cancer screening program. In a field lacking meaningful standards, women may rely on Therma-Scan to provide them with the highest standards for innovation and quality for breast thermology.

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