What Doctors Have to Say About Thermography
Christiane Northrup, M.D
"Thermography is a breast health screening modality that actually helps prevent breast cancer, not just diagnose it early. I highly recommend this approach." www.drnorthrup.com
Christiane Northrup, M.D. is a board-certifed ob/gyn who is a visionary pioneer in women's health and wellness. She is the host of 7 successful public television specials and the author of The Secret Pleasures of Menopause, The Wisdom of Menopause, Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom, and Mother-Daughter Wisdom.
Joseph Mercola, D.O.
"There's a new diagnostic high-tech tool that I've recently welcomed to my clinic, The Natural Health Center. It specifically measures inflammation ... It's called thermal imaging, or thermography ... I recommend this tool. naturalhealthcenter.mercola.com
Christine Horner, M.D
There is no question that mammograms are a useful screening tool. They have helped us find cancers at earlier more treatable stages and have helped save lives. However, mammograms are not perfect. In fact, far from it. This test uses potentially dangerous radiation, can be painful, can’t see through dense breast tissue found typically in women younger than 40, and doesn’t work well for women with breast implants. At its best, a mammogram can only see breast cancers that produce calcium or significant masses—about 70 to 80 percent of all breast cancers. Regardless of their size, 20 to 30 percent of breast cancers won’t show up on a mammogram. So, women with these invisible tumors feel falsely reassured by a normal mammogram and diagnosis of their cancers may be dangerously delayed.
In addition, 80 percent of the findings on mammogram that are suspicious enough to lead to a recommendation of a breast biopsy are not cancers. In other words, mammograms wrongly suspect the presence of breast cancer 80 percent of the time! The financial and emotional costs of the “false positive” readings from mammography are enormous. More than a million breast biopsies are performed in the United States each year. So, approximately 800,000 women undergo expensive, physically traumatizing and emotionally devastating surgical biopsies unnecessarily every year. Clearly there is a need for a much better screening tool and thermography holds the most promise.
Before a breast tumor forms, new blood vessels will start to grow into the area. But they are not normal blood vessels. They grow in abnormal patterns and produce an abnormal amount of heat. Thermograms are safe, harmless infrared pictures of the breast that can pick up these abnormal physiological blood vessel and heat patterns as early as five to ten years before a tumor grows to the point where it can be detected by a mammogram, MRI, or ultrasound or felt by a physical exam. What is most exciting is that when these abnormal processes are caught this early, they are reversible. The warning patterns seen by thermography have been found to resolve and return to normal after only a few short months of the healthy diet and lifestyle changes and dietary supplements. Thus, thermography is the first technology we have that shows promise as a screening tool that can help prevent breast cancer and end the breast cancer epidemic.
Christiane Horner, M.D. a nationally recognized surgeon who authored Waking the Warrior Goddess, a book dedicated to helping women protect against and fight breast cancer.