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PrintMammography Versus Thermography
Thermography and mammography are very different. One cannot replace the other, but by using them together, we may have a chance to realize a new and truly visionary way to make positive changes and reduce the risk of breast cancer for the benefit of all women.
It is now undisputed that the tipping point that takes an otherwise dormant tumor to one that grows to become diagnosed later as cancer is a process called angiogenesis, which is required for all cancer development. It is not known what triggers it, but without the blood supply that feeds it, the tumor will die.
FDA registered thermography devices are infrared cameras that detect minute changes in body temperature. Thermography can detect angiogenesis because it creates a heat signature; mammography cannot. Therefore, thermography can offer an early warning, which mammography cannot. Women deserve access to early warning, an opportunity to take a different path and maybe even change the outcome of their disease in advance.
Mammography is part of medical evolution. It is still the currently accepted standard of care and freely paid by most insurance and strongly supported by the medical community. Thermography is not a replacement for mammography, and no one would suggest that if a woman has a thermogram, she couldn’t have a mammogram as well. More women are avoiding mammography now, not only because they are having thermography, but because of negative personal experience and the associated risks with mammography and results which are too often false.
Compression screening mammography has been available to women age 40 and over worldwide since the 1980s. The hope was that it would offer early detection and treatment of breast cancer to reduce the mortality rate. There was great pressure on medicine at that time to find a solution, so in spite of the known risks associated with radiation exposure, mammography was chosen as the screening of choice.
In spite of these efforts, the mortality rate has failed to decline over the past 50 years. The issue is that breast cancer is currently being detected at such a late stage that there is very little medicine can do the change the outcome. There is no debate that breast cancer spends 75 percent of its developing life undetected, even by mammogram.
The time has come for change in the way we think about how to reduce the mortality rate, not only of breast cancer, but all cancers; which are known to be preventable. In autopsies on women age 40 to 50 that were otherwise healthy and died in automobile accidents, 40 percent were found to have multiple, tiny dormant tumors in their breasts.
Thermography is the future. The most exciting developments in cancer research are in the field angiogenesis research. Visionaries see the combination of thermography and angiogenesis control as a possible answer to reduction in cancer mortality. Women have the right to do what they can to protect themselves today. If mammography, thermography and angiogenesis work together, all women will eventually benefit. You don’t have to wait, thermography is available now; and you can still have a mammogram, if that is your choice.
Visit iamtonline.org for a list of locations that offer thermography. For more information or to schedule a scan by Cheryl Valcour, R.N.,M.B.A.,C.T.T. of Thermography Now, located in The Body-N-Balance. 3980 Southside Blvd., Bldg. 1 #103, Jacksonville, FL. 32216. Cheryl can be reached at 954-609-0641 or www.getthermographynow.com.
