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  2. What is thermography? Here's what experts say about cancer ...

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    Feig's study employed three methods — clinical exam, mammography and thermography — to screen 16,000 women between the ages of 40 and 64 for breast cancer and found that mammography detected ...

  3. Dynamic angiothermography - Wikipedia

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    When the sensor is leaning on the breast, the heat, produced by vascularization, induces an image due to the change of the liquid crystal state that passes from solid (black coloured) to liquid. While in the previous contact thermography the doctor studied the colour distribution, in the new methodology (dynamic angiothermography) the image is ...

  4. Non-contact thermography - Wikipedia

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    Thermography is discouraged in North America by the American Cancer Society, radiologists and the FDA for early breast cancer detection. Advertisements in the United Kingdom have been found to be misleading. [10] The FDA has cleared thermography only as an adjunct method of screening. "Thermography devices have been cleared by the FDA for use ...

  5. Breast imaging - Wikipedia

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    Schematic image showing a woman undergoing a mammogram imaging examination. In medicine, breast imaging is a sub-speciality of diagnostic radiology that involves imaging of the breasts for screening or diagnostic purposes. There are various methods of breast imaging using a variety of technologies as described in detail below.

  6. Mammograms are still so uncomfortable. Here’s why - AOL

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    This isn’t a surprise considering that “it is normal and very common for women to have sensitive breast tissue,” Dr. Laura H. Dean, radiologist in the section of breast imaging at Cleveland ...

  7. Molecular breast imaging - Wikipedia

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    Molecular breast imaging (MBI), also known as scintimammography, is a type of breast imaging test that is used to detect cancer cells in breast tissue of individuals who have had abnormal mammograms, especially for those who have dense breast tissue, post-operative scar tissue or breast implants.

  8. Breast thermography - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 5 August 2015, at 18:32 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

  9. Mammography - Wikipedia

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    The "Egan technique", as it became known, enabled physicians to detect calcification in breast tissue; [68] of the 245 breast cancers that were confirmed by biopsy among 1,000 patients, Egan and his colleagues at M.D. Anderson were able to identify 238 cases by using his method, 19 of which were in patients whose physical examinations had ...