Medical Imaging should be folded into the traditional Mammogram procedures. At this time Thermal Mammography is only available to women and men who are part of said Clinical Trials.

Potentially there is a market for Thermal Medical Imaging as part of alternative cancer screenings for early breast cancer detection. The FDA will continue to review the findings of the clinical trials. The aim of Thermal Medical Imaging is really to provide the patient with a pain-free alternative cancer screening as any woman can tell you mammograms, no matter what size breasts one has, are quite painful, time-consuming and often uncomfortable as a patient is made to stand in front of a machine that presses the flesh of each breast over and over again while the clinical technician attempts to capture the clearest image of the tissue. Usually, this procedure is repeated various times on each breast to insure the clearest image.  Women are ever so wary of Mammograms due to the uncomfortable nature of the procedure as well as the time it involves, sometimes taking up to a few weeks or a month for the results to be disclosed. And in the case of Mammograms, the images are not usually seen by the patient.

Women brace themselves each time they make an appointment for a mammogram as they realize the double-edged nature of the appointment but with no alternative, until now with Medical Infrared Imaging, women have had to accept the nature of Mammograms as the only means to early breast cancer detection. It is our hope that with FDA approval, Thermal Imaging will prove to be at least a pain-free alternative cancer screening option for patients, men and women alike.

References:

Anon. “Thermography / Computerized Thermal Imaging. www.imagins.com.http://www.imaginis.com/breasthealth/thermal_imaging.asp, (05/8/2009).

Anon. “Breast cancer treatment heats up”. www.physorg.com,http://www.physorg.com/news92400583.html, (05/08/2009)