INFRARED AND BREAST CANCER

Traditional methods of breast cancer screening have failed to produce significant reductions in breast cancer mortality.  Breast cancer mortality has remained virtually unchanged over the past 30 years.  Numerous studies suggest that a change in screening methods must occur if a significant change in breast cancer mortality is to be realized. 

Traditional procedures only provide detection of existing tissue inclusions (masses or lumps).  Infrared imaging can  detect the early cancerous process itself, thus providing women with a true cancer screening procedure. 

Every three minutes a woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer. In 2006, an estimated 212,920 new cases of invasive breast cancer were expected to be diagnosed, along with 61,980 new cases of non-invasive breast cancer. And 40,970 women were expected to die in 2006 from this disease¹.

 

Breast cancer is the leading cancer among white and African American women. African American women are more likely to die from this disease².

 

Breast cancer incidence in women has increased from one in 20 in 1960 to one in eight today³.

 

Source:

¹ American Cancer Society, "Detailed Guide: Breast Cancer," 2006

² National Cancer Institute, "Cancer Incidence in the U.S."

³ National Breast Cancer Foundation, "Signs and Symptoms," 2006

 

On average, the smallest lump found by traditional methods of screening is 1.5 centimeters, or the size of a toy marble.

 

At Clinical Imaging Associates, our screening protocol for breast cancer can detect lumps as small as 0.5 cm, or the size of a frozen pea.  This can mean life saving time with very early detection.

At Clinical Imaging Associates, our breast cancer screening detects the process of cancer (angiogenesis), not the results of cancer growth (tumors).

Clinical Imaging Associates does not advocate abandoning traditional screening methods.  Mammograms, clinical exams and self exams are all important.  Infrared imaging provides an additional procedure that provides additional screening information. 

Infrared screening “in addition to” traditional screening methods, not “instead of” traditional screening methods.