Dear Radiant Body,
If you’re not already on the schedule, and need breast or body scanning, please join me in this light-filled cottage for your next thermogram. Dates available at the cottage: October 27 - November 7th. Here are six attributes that set us apart from lesser clinics just in the quality of the reporting.
Each breast report:
1. Is interpreted by the best team in the country, led by Dr. William C. Amalu, DC, DABCT. If interested, see more about Dr. Amalu at his site. He has over three decades of experience and has written extensively on the subject of infrared imaging of the breast and considered one of the world’s renowned experts by the editors of The Biomedical Engineering Handbook: Medical Devices and Systems, in which is contained a chapter on Infrared Imaging of the Breast written by Dr. Amalu. Email us for a copy of this chapter which is a compilation of all the pertinent medical literature on the subject.
2. Contains two sets of high-resolution images, color and black & white.
3. Includes closeup images taken as standard procedure (closeups omitted by many clinics due to camera limitations).
4. Gives you a hormone pattern analysis, reporting the changes, if any, since last visit. There’s currently no great test in the medical industry for measuring estrogen in breasts. Breasts can contain much more estrogen than in the blood so a blood test is very limited. Many docs believe the best test so far is a urine test that measures excreted estrogen, still not breast specific. Imbalances of estrogen create a thermal pattern in breasts that is visible with thermography, a fabulous tool for correcting a problem before it manifests into serious problems.
5. Individualized Future Breast Risk. Studies show that an abnormal thermogram is 10X more predictive than a first order family history. A persistent abnormal thermogram is 22X more predictive than a first order family history. (Amalric, R., Gautherie, M., Hobbins, W., Stark, A.: The Future of Women with an Isolated Abnormal Infrared Thermogram. La Nouvelle Presse Med 10(38):3153-3159, 1981.), (Louis, K., Walter, J., Gautherie, M.: Long-Term Assessment of Breast Cancer Risk by Thermal Imaging. Biomedical Thermology. Alan R. Liss Inc. pp.279-301, 1982.) The great news is that many women see objective proof of risk reduction as their numerical breast thermography grades and hormone imbalance patterns improve with their lifestyle changes.
6. Provides a “roadmap” for a structural imaging technician - detailed instructions about locations of any concerns which can lead an ultrasound technician directly to the areas of greater risk. Once you’ve ruled out solid matter existing in these areas with an ultrasound or other means of structural imaging, and everything remains stable year to year with your thermal patterns, “additional imaging” will not be recommended unless there is an increase in heat somewhere in your normal pattern, allowing one to substantially reduce exposure to unnecessary radiation and harmful testing.