Breast Thermography Clinic at Lifecycles Wellness
Saturday, July 16th, 2011
9 am - 5:30 pm
please call us to book your 30 minute appointment: 647 428 7200
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women.
Current research indicates that 1 in every 9 women in Canada will get breast cancer in her lifetime. That means an average of 445 Canadian women will be diagnosed with breast cancer each week. With these alarming statistics, pro-active women do everything they can to detect possible problems early.
Breast Thermography, otherwise known as Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging (DITI) is a diagnostic procedure that creates images based on a careful detection and analysis of skin and tissue temperatures. These images allow practitioners to see where there is abnormal chemical and blood vessel activity in breast and body tissue. The ability of DITI to detect thermal signs that may suggest a pre-cancerous state of the breast at an extremely early stage, is a useful tool in early detection.
Benefits of Breast Thermography:
- Thermography is a non-invasive test. An infrared camera creates an image of your breasts and body by measuring heat. There is no contact of any kind, no pain, no radiation.
- Signs of possible cancer or pre-cancerous cell growth may be detected up to 10 years prior to being discovered using any other procedure (including mammogram). This provides for the earliest possible detection of pre-cancerous and cancerous conditions.
- Breast Thermography is painless and safe, using no radiation or compression. It can be used effectively and safely for all women including pregnant or nursing women, women with fibrocystic breasts or dense breast tissue, and women with breast implants.
- It is safe. Over thirty years of clinical use and more than 8,000 peer-reviewed studies in medical literature have established thermography as a safe and effective means to examine the human body. It is FDA approved in the United States since 1982 and has been used there and in Europe for over twenty five years.
- Accurately detecting changes. Each patient has a particular infrared map of their breast. Any changes in this infrared map on images taken over months or years, may constitute an early sign of an abnormality. All images are kept on file for several years for comparison with previous images.
- No worrisome waiting around. You will get your results within a week of the test/procedure. All images are read by certified physicians of DITI. If a pathology is suspected, this information is used to recommend further examination and tests.
Why do I need to do thermography when there are mammograms?
Mammograms detect structural changes, so a lump or mass of a size detectable on X-ray is already present in breast tissue by the time a problem is found. The next step is further investigation by ultrasound and/or biopsy to diagnose the nature of the lump or mass, and to make treatment decisions. At this point, it is often too late to implement preventive strategies alone, so medical intervention is the norm.
In comparison, breast thermography detects functional changes in breast tissue before tumours form or when they are too small to be detected with X-rays. Detecting breast cancer at its earliest stage is when there is the greatest potential for successful treatment. The addition of breast thermography to the front line of early breast cancer detection is good news for women.
Your Thermographer - Lynn Schott RN
After experiencing her own breast cancer scare, Lynn began to look into the use of thermography for early detection. She wanted to help other women avoid the anguish that she and her family had experienced. With a medical background of 9 years in nursing, she has seen first hand the results of not using this type of preventive testing. Her experience working with cancer patients and helping them get coverage for their costly cancer treatments awakened her to the increasing prevalence of cancer. No longer willing to just watch it happen and try to sweep up the pieces, Lynn took the training with the American College of Clinical Thermography to be able to offer this early detection procedure to the public and is now offering thermography clinics at Lifecycles Wellness.
Call 647-428-7200 to book your appointment or e-mail info@lifecycleswellness.com for more information.
