Save the Boobs! Breast Cancer Detection with Thermography

Save the boobs! Kick off Breast Cancer Awareness month! Detect breast cancer sooner. How does breast thermography work? Breast thermography measures differences in infrared heat emission from normal breast tissue and benign breast abnormalities (such as fibrocystic disease, cysts, infections and benign tumors) thus differentiating them from breast cancers. This procedure is performed with a high degree of sensitivity and accuracy, providing a non-invasive measurement of the physiology of breast tissue. Pink Image uses a high resolution, highly-sensitive infrared camera to measure minute differences in infrared heat emission from tumors and the vascular structure they require. Because tumor tissue does not have an intact sympathetic nervous system, it cannot regulate heat loss. When the breast is cooled with small fans in a temperature controlled room, blood vessels of normal tissue respond by constricting to conserve heat while tumor tissue and its blood vessels remains hot. Thus, tumors emit more heat than their surrounding tissues allowing them to be detected by Pink Images heat sensing infrared camera. Breast thermograms show highly specific thermal patterns in each individual woman. They provide a unique "thermal signature" that remains constant over years unless there is a change in an underlying condition. Thus, over time, it is possible to differentiate between cancers and benign conditions. Since the technology has the ability to accurately detect cancers over time, it becomes important to have a baseline early on in a woman's life. For this reason, women should have breast thermography performed as early as age 25.