Thermography-Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging

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  • orange1
    orange1 Member Posts: 930
    edited February 2009

    Thanks LJ.

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  • FloridaLady
    FloridaLady Member Posts: 2,155
    edited April 2009

    bump

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  • carol1949
    carol1949 Member Posts: 562
    edited April 2009

    It's is all about the money!!!!  I just had a mammo follow up last week and the radiologist who read it said he is very interested in learning more about thermography and hopes they will use it in the future.  On the other hand, my oncologist says the only thing wrong with it is we have "no" medical procedures advanced enough to confirm the early findings of thermography readings.

    The GOOD news, for those of us who are holistic minded... we can proceed with /or increase our alternatives!

    Mammo also missed my tumor until it was 6.5 cm !  Doesn't give one a whole lot of confidence in our medical system... I still say it is all about the almighty buck in regard to thermography.  There apparently was a tv special on it recently, as my rads dr. saw it!  Incidentally, I also was in a major medical facility that missed it!  It is like looking for a cotton ball in a cloud.

     My understanding is insurance will not pay for it.

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  • vivre
    vivre Member Posts: 2,167
    edited April 2009

    Carol, you are so right about the insurance not paying. Nonetheless, the $125 I pay for a thermography is well worth it to me. It is painless, and does not expose me to any more radiation. This fact makes me more likely to want to have them done regularly as a screening tool. I will never, ever do a mammo again. If my therm is suspicious, I will then ask for US or MRI. I have had 2 therms and feel very confident that they show more than a mammo(which missed my grape size tumor). But like anything else, they are only as good as the tech who reads it, so find someone who is experienced if you decide to go this route.

    By the way, when I went for my last therm, I took a friend who was worried because her mammo showed nothing and she was nervous that it was missing something. The therm showed an area that was suspicious. She is going to have another in a couple of months to compare any changes. When her doctor compared the two, he told her he felt the therm gave him more info and he definitely wants to monitor her closely.

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  • carol1949
    carol1949 Member Posts: 562
    edited April 2009

    Thank You Vivre!!!    I will research the facility in Sarasota County.

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  • thermoworld
    thermoworld Member Posts: 1
    edited September 2010
    I would like to let any visitors who may read this or know of anyone who may be in need of this but there is a Thermography clinic in Spokane Valley Wa. Empire Digital Imaging. If you would like to know if there is a Thermography clinic near you, please visit ACCT website or www.meditherm.com and click on locations and you will find all as current as possible clinics who will perform Thermography under an orginization that has standardized training and evaluations that can be used anywhere in the US. Meditherm Clinics are all trained internally and have standardized clinics allowing the patients to be viewed in one state or another for follow up as the digital images are stored in a centralized headquarters for future evaluations and detection of any changes. Just make sure where ever you live, you use a Meditherm qualified location. There are locations that do take Thermography images but their systems are not uniformed and cannot be used by another Thermography location as the baseline cannot not be compared to from a different system. Empire Digital Imaging in Spokane and any other ACCT location in the US can all use their images taken from one state to another.  
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  • o2bhealthy
    o2bhealthy Member Posts: 2,101
    edited September 2010

    I a a full body thermal scan just to ease my mind after treatment was over.  I paid for it on my own as insurance would not cover it.

    My DH & I were very intrigued by the whole process.  I was able to see the lymphatic blockage in my axillary /chest on both sides and was surprised to see that there was more fluid on the L (non cancer side) then the right (cancer side), just goes to show that the MLD that I have been doing (focusing on the right side) really has made a difference. 

    There was some hyperactivity (excessive heat) in both my cardioid arteries so we are going to take a closer look via US , funny thing is the left artery is not as 'hot' as the right and I have my port going into the left artery...Also my Thyroid is a little cold indicating that it might not be functioning well so we will run a few blood and urine tests to check that out as well.  

    I feel better just knowing that I have a baseline scan to refer to and should I have any concerns or be symptomatic, I have something noninvasive to refer too initially before going for the big guns. 

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  • ladychampagne
    ladychampagne Member Posts: 1
    edited September 2010
    Frown I live in the Southern part of Ontario & would like to know if there is a place that does Digital Infared Thermal Imaging?
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  • thermogirl
    thermogirl Member Posts: 1
    edited August 2013

    It is very unfortunate that thermography is dismissed by so many doctors...I wonder why such an inexpensive, accurate and painless/no radiation test that can literally SAVE countless lives isn't used more...absolute insanity..think about it.  If every woman had a thermoscan beginning in her 20's and had the 90 day follow-up to look for changes, then went anually you know we could WIPE OUT THE BREAST CANCER EPIDEMIC IN THIS COUNTRY!!! Women are fed up with the smash up mamography which includes large radiation doses.. Did you know in order to be "neutral" for a thermoscan, you cannot have had a mamogram within 60 days because your body is still too hot from the radiation that it puts inyo your body?  Stand up women and demand thermography be given more status and use.  We owe it to our sisters, mothers and daughters!~

    In SPokane, WA  there is Empire Digital Imaging...great understanding staff

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  • crazy4carrots
    crazy4carrots Member Posts: 5,324
    edited October 2010

    Thermography is "dismissed by so many doctors" because clinical study after clinical study -- going on for well over 35 years - has shown it NOT to be effective in detecting early-stage BC.  Someone suggested that the reason docs don't use it is because there is more money in mammography.  If that were true, then countries with universal (and non-profit) healthcare would gladly recommend thermograms for screening, rather than paying for expensive digital mammography machines, and the radiologists who read them. They don't.

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