Breast Thermography

WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) --  Some doctors are using a tool that has the ability to warn women up to 10 years before any other procedure that a cancer may be forming.

One breast thermography patient Ajowa Ifateyo takes her health seriously and practices early detection. She would get a mammogram every year.

But mammography misses 15% of the time and it can only find a breast lump after it starts to grow. Seeking early detection as a means of the early prevention of cancer, Ifateyo found Breast Thermography on the internet and Dr. Bruce Rind at National Integrated Health Associates in NW Washington.

Mammography & thermography are designed to look at different things & pick up different information. If a tumor is present, mammography will see it. But Dr. Rind says thermography tells you what the breast is doing, changes in its function, well in advance of invasive tumor growth.

"If a women is in the process of becoming ill, developing a tumor or on the way, we can actually start seeing the images become less and less healthy," Dr. Rind tells us. 

Thermography uses no radiation or intravenous injection; therefore, it poses absolutely no health risk to the patient. Since there is no contact with the body, the procedure is also completely painless.

Finding a hot spot doesn't mean there is cancer, but Dr. Rind says, "It does warrant closer attention and necessary lifestyle changes."

"A lot of women have lumps, bumps and cists these things very often start to clear out as women do things that are good for them. The texture becomes more normal. The appearance becomes more normal, chances are she is becoming healthier in every way." Dr. Rind tells us.

Thermography has been around since the late 1960s and approved by the FDA in 1982. But it isn't a matter of either or. Based on his patient results, Dr. Rind believes wider use of thermography as an adjunct to traditional mammography could result in a 90% drop in breast cancer rates.

Dr. Rind's patient Ajowa Ifateyo tells 9 NEWS NOW, "I loved it; to me, that's what health and medicine is all about. Not waiting until you are sick."

Thermography is for women of all ages. But the best candidates for the procedure are younger women with denser breast tissue, pregnant women, women with implants and others who want to limit radiation exposure. 

Click here for more information on Breast Thermography or you can call National Intergrated Health Assoicates at 202-237-7000.