INFRARED & BIOPSIES

1.6 million breast biopsies are performed every year in the US.  Approximately 75–80% yield a benign outcome. 

 

Undergoing breast biopsy of benign tissues places substantial physical and psychological burdens on the patient without improving patient care.  In addition, such testing has a great economic impact on the health care system.

 

The average total cost of a breast tissue biopsy is approximately $ 3,400.00.

 

Infrared imaging assessments offers a non-invasive, economic and safe adjunct to mammography that is helpful in determining whether an immediate biopsy is warranted.

 

 

 

 

SOURCES: 

Efficacy of Computerized Infrared Imaging Analysis to Evaluate Mammographically Suspicious Lesions

Y.R. Parisky et al / Published in AJR2003;189:263-269.

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One Hundred Consecutive Advanced Breast Biopsy Instrumentation Procedures: Complications, Costs and Outcome

M. Bloomstrom, MD et al / Society of Surgical Oncology, Inc. Sept. 1998.