Why Use Thermography For Breast Screening?

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and a good time to make sure your breast health is in check. Two of the ways we promote positive breast health is through PREVENTION & EARLY DETECTION. How? Not only by offering nutritional and other therapies for keeping your body healthy, but  by offering thermography scans to help detect potential problems BEFORE they become big ones. Cells in the breast tissue renew every 90 days. Since cancer cells do not die, they keep doubling and turn into a mass. That is how 2 cells become trillions of cells in just 8 years.   For example, this is a hypothetical chart, but it can be representative of an average growth pattern of a slow-developing breast tumor. Most doctors agree and even tell their breast cancer patients that a growth may have been there for 8 or 10 years.

• 90 days, 2 cells
• 1 year, 16 cells
• 2 years, 256 cells
• 3 years, 4,896 cells
• 4 years, 65,536 cells
• 5 years, 1,048,576 cells (still undetectable)
• 6 years, 16,777,216 cells
• 7 years, 268,435,456 cells
• 8 years, 4,294,967,296 cells

Normal detection by mammogram isn’t possible until 40 cell doublings, or approximately 10 years, by which time it’s quite late in the game. Thermography, on the other hand, offers a safe and effective way to help identify CHANGES in the blood supply to your breasts at a very EARLY stage. (You can learn more about how in this recent post). As an adjunct to regular mammograms and breast screenings, thermography can detect changes at the earliest stages of cancer. Routine follow-up visits to track changes are the most important piece of the early detection puzzle. Most importantly, thermography scans can be done at no risk to your health – the specialized camera does not use radiation. Call Nature’s Balance Acupuncture today to learn more about this proactive, safe and breast friendly procedure and to schedule your initial appointment.