Breast Screening Outline

Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging ‘DITI’ is a 5 minute non invasive test of physiology. It is a valuable procedure for alerting a doctor to changes that can indicate early stage breast disease. The benefit of DITI testing is that it offers the opportunity of earlier detection of breast disease than has been possible through breast self examination, doctor exam or mammography alone.

Breast Cancer tends to grow significantly faster in younger woman (under 50) AVERAGE AGE TUMOR DOUBLING TIME Under 50 80 days Age 50 - 70 157 days Over Age 70 188 days Source: Cancer 71:3547-3551, 1993. Because pre-menopausal breast tissue is denser and more vascular than post menopausal breast tissue, any pathology taking place will have a better vascular supply and there will be increased cell changes and faster development of pathology in the younger women. One of the limitations of mammography is that with dense breast tissue it is difficult to differentiate between normal and abnormal density in the early stages of pathology. (It is also necessary to use more radiation to properly image dense breasts). Thermography is better suited to detect the physiological changes in the denser and more vascular pre-menopausal breast, with positive findings, months and sometimes years before the pathology becomes dense enough to be seen with mammography.

Because pre-menopausal breast tissue is denser and more vascular than post menopausal breast tissue, any pathology taking place will have a better vascular supply and there will be increased cell changes and faster development of pathology in the younger women.