Finally… a breast imaging technology for all women, regardless of age, body, or breast tissue characteristics… that provides RISK ASSESSMENT.

• Did you know that an abnormal thermogram (at high or highest thermobiological risk) is 10x more significant than a family history of breast cancer?

• Decades of research involving hundreds of thousands of clients indicates that 40% of clients with an abnormal breast thermogram (at high or highest thermobiological risk) are diagnosed with cancer within 10 years.

• Other risk factors involve genetics, estrogen, environment, health, lifestyle, and diet.

    Today, these risk factors and the risk reduction strategies to combat them are more clearly defined than ever. To reduce the risk of breast cancer, women can learn about their risk factors and employ strategies that reduce their effects, i.e. with the book "Better Breast Health - for Life!"™, available through www.BetterbreasthealthforLife.com (While is is an empowering self-help book, it is in no way a substitute for professional healthcare. Instead, it repeatedly recommends that readers "obtain qualified health provider(s) for consultation".)

How is Thermal Imaging Helpful?

       "I like to think of my risk assessment as a way of understanding how all the risk factors are collectively impacting my breast health at any given point in time. If I don’t like the results, I make changes in one or more of these factors and monitor the impact with a new risk assessment. Over time, I hope to reduce my risk ratings, improve my breast health, and avoid breast cancer ."  - Tina

    Thermal imaging is not a breast cancer detection tool, but a risk assessment tool. (Mammograms, thermograms, ultrasounds do not diagnose cancer: they look for signs of risk that may be consistent with cancer. Only pathology reports diagnose cancer, after tissue/cells have been studied under a microscope via biopsy.)

The average cancer takes up to 8-10 years to become large enough to be visible on a mammogram , typically at 3 mm. But active cancers begin creating a blood supply at about 1/5 mm.

Thermal imaging looks for signs of developing blood supply.

What if these signs are seen early enough for a client and her doctor to intervene and reverse the process?

    If a woman learns she has signs suggesting that she is at high thermobiological risk for developing cancer, she may have an early opportunity to intervene, perhaps reversing the situation. If she did not know she was at high risk, would she have had this opportunity?

    On the other hand, why would a woman at lowest risk be overly anxious and considering reducing every single risk factor for which she has some control?

    Your interpretive report includes a thermobiological risk rating for each breast on a scale:

Thermobiological

Breast Risk Rating     Cancer Risk

            TH1                         Lowest

            TH2                            Low   

            TH3                         Medium

            TH4                            High

            TH5                         Highest

Vital Information for you and your Doctor:

*NOTE: The Thermogram Center is not a treatment or diagnosing center. The information at this website is for general information and resource purposes only and is not intended in any way to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Please make healthcare decisions in partnership with a qualified healthcare practitioner.

• A thermogram is NOT a replacement for a mammogram or any anatomical test. A mammogram or any anatomical test is NOT a replacement for a thermogram.

  • A mammogram is an anatomical test that focuses on detecting masses, calcifications, and structure. A thermogram is a physiological test that focuses on thermobiological signs of risk. Each sees different breast characteristics and is complementary to the other.

  • High risk thermograms warrant anatomical follow-up (i.e. mammogram, ultrasound, MRI) to determine if there is already a sizable tumor. (The earliest stages of cancer; assymetrical vascular anatomy; injury to the breast; infection; inflammation and/or irritation (i.e. from fatty or fibro- cysts or fibroadenomas); leaking implants; congested lymphatics; hormonal imbalance; and recent radiation treatment can produce abnormal thermal findings and should be considered during the evaluation process with the client’s physician.)

  • Thermal imaging assesses thermobiological risk and vascular dilation, which increases with estrogen stimulation.

• Thermal imaging may help doctors and clients make informed decisions regarding the need for further evaluation.

  • For instance, a 30 year old with no family history but with a TH4 or TH5 rating should consult with her doctor about further evaluation, i.e. mammograms, ultrasounds, MRIs. She may need to start breast screening now, rather than wait until the typical age of 40.

  • On the other hand, a 50 year old with lowest or low risk, TH1 or TH2, and no family history may not need much further evaluation. The decision lies between the client and her doctor.

  • Thermal imaging provides adjunctive data so the doctor and the client may make more informed decisions regarding further evaluation.

• Thermal imaging may provide data useful in determining the necessity for biopsy following a suspicious mammogram.

  • Some studies indicate that up to 85% of biopsies find benign tissue.

  • A high risk thermogram following a suspicious mammogram SUPPORTS evaluation by biopsy.

  • A low risk thermogram suggests otherwise. (While neither mammograms nor thermograms can diagnose cancer, biopsies and the subsequent histology report can diagnose cancer.)

• Thermal imaging can help monitor the effects of intervention efforts or treatment plans on breast health and cancer risk.

  • Breast tissue is very responsive to nutritional and medicinal therapies and can respond to lifestyle changes as well. Signs of thermobiological change, for better or worse, can be assessed and monitored by thermal imaging.

  • Thermal imaging attempts to assess signs indicative of the rate of change - helpful information when trying to determine how quickly a diagnosed cancer may be growing or responding to treatment.

• Decades of research indicates 6%-10% false negatives.

Studies indicate that:

Thermal imaging can significantly increase the accuracy of a mammogram.

When thermal imaging is added to mammography, survival rates can increase by 61%.

• Thermal imaging is ideal for all women, especially those who aren't ideal for mammography and/or:

  • under age 50; with dense, fibrocystic, or large breasts; HRT, implants, or surgical reduction;

  • who are pre-menopausal, nursing or pregnant, or cannot tolerate radiation.

About thermobiological risk ratings:

 With a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being lowest risk and 5 suggesting highest risk for developing cancer, clients and doctors can make informed decisions regarding further evaluation, and can determine if risk is increasing or decreasing over time so that they may  manage risk factors accordingly. Women at lowest/low risk often consider living a clean lifestyle, while women at medium risk often consider that, plus factors involving diet, immunity, stress, hormonal, toxicity, etc. Women at high/highest risk often consider aggressive management of many factors as well as intervention therapies/treatments. (Many women can reduce their risk ratings over time.)

How Does Thermal Imaging Work?

Our advanced thermal imaging uses an ultra-sensitive camera and sophisticated software to create a visual map of the temperatures and thermal patterns of the breast. Because active cancers (NOT pre-cancers, in-situ cancers, or recently activated cancers) alter breast temperature and blood supply, they can produce thermobiological signs clearly apparent on thermal images. The resulting images are computer analyzed and interpreted by a board-certified thermologist, who will also render a hormonal grade, which is influenced by estrogen stimulation. This may be important information given that prolonged exposure to excess estrogen stimulation is a significant risk factor for breast cancer development:

        Pre Treatment:* 

The darker areas are higher in temperature,     suggesting vascular dilation and elevated estrogen  stimulation with increased risk of breast cancer.

Graded on a scale of 1 to 4, her pre-therapy Hormonal Grade is a 3.

        Post Treatment:* 

Note the          difficulty in        seeing the        vascular          display/dilation      in this image.

After nutritional support for estrogen metabolism*, this client's Hormonal Grade decreased from a 3 to a 1, indicating (indireclty) a reduction in estrogen stimulation and risk for developing breast cancer.

About estrogen stimulation:

Your interpretive report includes a reversed grayscale image (like those shown above) of the vascular dilation in the breasts and a Hormonal Grade, which increases with estrogen stimulation. This may be important because the National Institute of Health reports that breast tissue can hold 10 to 50 times more estrogen than the levels revealed in typical blood tests, and because prolonged exposure to excess estrogen is a significant risk factor for breast cancer development.

Reducing excess and unnecessary estrogen stimulation in the breasts may reduce a woman's risk of developing breast cancer.

Is Breast Thermal Imaging Effective?

    Of course! First, understand that there is a known standard for a low risk thermogram and that breast disease causes thermograms to significantly deviate from that standard. Low risk breast thermograms show symmetrical heat patterns and similar temperatures of left and right breast locations:  

This is an         example of      a low risk          thermogram.

The Certified Clinical Thermologists reading and interpreting breast thermograms for The Thermogram Center follow standardized analytical guidelines and a 20-step procedure, assessing temperature readings, heat patterns, vascular formations, vascular dilation and thermobiological risk ratings.

Regarding vascular formations:

    Cancerous cells are blood thirsty and stimulate the development of new blood vessels to feed them (neoangiogenesis). These vascular formations are one thermobiological sign that cancer may be developing. Here is an example of a highest risk thermogram, from a 33 year old client who had a normal mammogram and a normal ultrasound. Can you see the vascular formation in the upper portion of her right breast, pictured on the left of the image? 

The breast pictured          on the left of this image    is significantly warmer       than that of the right.

This thermogram indicates highest risk for developing breast cancer, and led to directed clinical palpation followed by lumpectomy that revealed a 3 mm carcinoma. While this client did not have time to reverse the situation, she was able to obtain a relatively early diagnosis.

*NOTE: While these clients may have been imaged at The Thermogram Center with the images analyzed/interpreted by its interpretive service provider, any treatment and/or diagnoses obtained by the client were through his/her health provider(s).