What is Thermography?

The Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging, also known as DITI, is a health screening tool that is non-invasive, painless and radiation-free.
Using a thermal camera, thermography maps the thermal patterns of the body which are then visualized in color on a monitor.
The thermal patterns are then used to detect and monitor dysfunction, inflammation, illness or pain.
It is a valuable source for your healthcare practitioner to changes that can indicate developing pathology and dysfunction.

Breast Thermography

DITI detects the subtle physiological changes that accompany breast pathology, whether it is cancer, fibrocystic disease, an infection or a vascular disease. Doctors can then plan accordingly, and lay out a careful program to further diagnose and/or monitor with other testing of standard care.

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Screening thermography has the opportunity to detect any changes at any stage in the development from the first year through to the time a tumour is dense enough to be seen with mammography.
This early detection of change can lead to earlier diagnosis and better treatment options as well as the opportunity for patients and their healthcare practitioners to intervene at an early stage with preventative treatment.

DITI is especially beneficial for younger women between 30 and 50, whose denser breast tissue makes it more difficult for mammography to pick up suspicious lesions.
This test can provide a "clinical marker" to the doctor or mammography that a specific area of the breast needs particularly close examination.