Yearly thermographic evaluations as part of a routine annual physical can be performed inexpensively and quickly. This would include mammography and other imaging tests, clinical laboratory procedures, nutritional and lifestyle evaluation and training in breast self examination. With this protocol, cancer will be detected at its earliest possible occurrence, It has been estimated my a number of my colleagues that thermography is correct 8-10 years before mammography can detect a mass. This is both exciting and frustrating for the clinician and the patient. It is exciting as it gives us the opportunity to intervene long before cancer can grab hold of the body.
Cancer is opportunistic.
We must find it, or the suspicious signs of its' presence long before the intervention stage has passed. It is very difficult to sit in front of a patient and tell them that you have a positive finding with a procedure that suggest the possibility of a terrible disease, and then have no other tools available to confirm or deny the tests correctness. This is not thermography's failure. Indeed this is where the scientific and research community has failed thermal imaging. If one can grasp the simple concept that thermography is detecting the fever of a breast pathology, whether it is cancer, fibrocystic disease, an infection or a vascular disease, then one can plan accordingly.