Breast Cancer and Safe Screening Awareness

There is a tool available today to help identify thebiological mutations, and are an established cause
conditions and diseases that could be going onof genomic instability, a characteristic of the most
inside you, without symptoms and seeminglyaggressive cancers.
harmless. If your a woman that has concernsReducing exposure to medical radiation with
about breast cancer, this technology is for you. Itunnecessary mammograms makes good sense,
could quite literally save your breasts, and yourconsidering the high percentage of false reads,
life.which unfortunately leads many women to have
When the normal function of your body goesan unnecessarily mastectomy or harmfully
dysfunctional, your body will try to heal itselftreated with more radiation or chemotherapy.
through natural processes. If these processes fail,Mammography has its value, but there are other
this is when symptoms develop and at whichtechnologies that are proven to be more
point most of us realize we need help. Especiallyeffective, less expensive, and completely
when the symptoms affect our lives or evenharmless. A win-win situation.
threaten them. The key is to get a heads-upWhat is an option that is safe and can give as
when your body is going through some abnormalmuch as 10 years warning of something about to
changes years before any discernible symptomsdevelop? It is called thermal imaging, or
develop, thereby avoiding any potential danger.thermography, which has the ability to detect
Unfortunately, the conventional medicineproblems early enough to use preventive choices,
community is keeps holding on to old ideas ofversus detecting disease at the stage where
cancer detection and treatment, not matter thetreatment is required. Thermography finding are
proven ineffectiveness. Breast detection methodsthe single most important indicator of high risk for
used by mainstream medicine includebreast cancer. The increased percentage survival
mammography, ultrasound, magnetic resonancerate is astounding when compared with other
imaging, and PET scans. Awareness and educationmethods.
of a better, less risky, more effective options forHow does thermography work? It is basically
detecting breast cancer are sorely lacking.infrared thermal imaging which detects irregular
Concerning conventional breast cancer screening,heat patterns which precedes a breast lump. A
it is recommended that all women over 40 gethealthy body is thermally symmetrical, therefore
mammogram every one to two years, yet thereboth breasts that are healthy, the blood flow will
is no solid evidence that mammorgrams saveshow nearly identical patterns. Thermography is
lives, and the benefits are a bit controversial. Inable to detect if something is awry by different
fact, the health hazards of mammography havevascular patterns, which can be an indicator of
been well established.something wrong. The surface temperature of
The routine practice of taking four films of eachthe breast increases as the body tries to feed
breast annually results in approximately 1 radthe cancer tissue. Heat differentiation in the body
exposure, and that is about 1,000 times greateris an indicator of disease, hence this principle
than that from a chest x-ray. In case you havn'tapplies most significantly in regard to breast
heard, radiation is not something to play aroundcancer detection.
with. X-rays and other classes of ionizing haveLadies, thermography is non-invasive, painless, and
been a proven cause of virtually all types ofrisk-free. Prevention is the best cure.