Is Breast Thermography Safe?
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Yes. Thermography is FDA-approved in the United States and has been used there and in Europe for over 20 years. Thermography is a non-invasive test. This means that nothing is sent into your body. It is simply creating an image of your breasts by measuring your heat. There is no contact of any kind, nor is there any pain or radiation.
Breat thermography can be used effectively and safely for all women including pregnant or nursing women, women with dense breast tissue, and women with breast implants.
It’s important to note that thermography does not diagnose breast cancer; like mammography, it is a screening tool. Thermography identifies abnormal physiological changes in your breasts that may be cancerous. Mammography, a type of x-ray, identifies certain structures in the breast that can potentially be cancer. With both mammography and thermography, definitive diagnosis is done by other procedures such as a biopsy or lumpectomy. Many of our patients come in after their doctors have decided “Let’s watch this area” due to an abnormal mammography. We correlate the area to be watched with a thermographic image of the same area. If the thermography shows an issue in the same area, the patient will have more information with which to make an informed decision.
We recommend that thermography be used together with mammography for the most comprehensive screening and the earliest possible detection.
Dr. Alex Mostovoy
