What Is Breast Thermography?

This article I discovered on the web tells you all about it. If you click here: What Is Breast Thermography? you will go right to the article so you can read the whole thing yourself. (It's filed under Breast Health on the main site if you are updating your searches.)

The short answer is:

"Thermography uses no painful breast compression, no radiation and is non-invasive. It is an ideal tool for mass screening not only for women over 40, but younger women as well. Breast pathologies have been found in women as young as 18 utilizing thermal imaging equipment. It would be a grave error to deny the efficacy of thermal imaging of the breast as an adjunctive diagnostic procedure in the overall management of the patient." (Dr. Alex Mostovoy)

"The procedure is both comfortable and safe, using no radiation or compression. By carefully examining changes in the temperature and blood vessels of the breasts, signs of possible cancer or pre-cancerous cell growth may be detected up to 10 years prior to being discovered using any other procedure. This provides for the earliest possible detection of cancer. Because of breast thermography’s extreme sensitivity, these temperature variations and vascular changes may be among the earliest signs of breast cancer and/or a pre-cancerous state of the breast." (Dr. Alex Mostovoy)

Seriously?

We need to get this information out. This is the first I have heard of this test. And it certainly was not offered to me by any of the Doctors that I have seen to date. Not a mention by any of the Foundations and Organizations that I contacted either. And what is the cost? Unfortunately the article does not mention that. Nor do they mention where you can get the test. (What is does do is tell you exactly how and why the test works, and that is really good information to take with you to the Doctors.)

If there is one thing I have learned from my battle to get assistance with my own breast cancer matters, it is to never assume that the person on the other end (of the line, the e-mail, the message board, the phone, the examining table) knows everything that you NEED them to know about breast cancer. There is too much out there. Too many programs that don't communicate to each other, too many articles to sift through, too many cases to get personal with any of them. It is just too much stuff. The only person that is going to really fight for your life is YOU. So take the information that you find, print it out and take it with you everywhere you go. Show it to every Doctor, Nurse, Case Manager. Show it to anyone that will listen. Don't let yourself fall through the cracks. It's your life, and it is important.

Okay, I'll hop off of the soapbox for now. But really, when I hear about tests like this, that are not automatically offered to people who need them, I just get so mad. (People, because 1% of breast cancer is discovered in men. Like I keep saying, no one is exempt.)

So take a look at the article. It is very informative. And it could save your life.


The page to Breast Health on the site: Naturally Savey.com

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