In November 2009, the the United States Preventive Services Task Force, an independent panel of experts in prevention and primary care appointed by the federal Department of Health and Human Services, issued a new set of guidelines for breast cancer screening.  The expert panel recommended that women should start getting regular mammograms every other year beginning at age 50, not at age 40.  Given these guidelines, we believe that a strong overall strategy for monitoring breast health would be as follows:

1.  Start Thermascan screening at age 25 – every two years.

2.  Starting at age 35, increase to every one year until age 50.

3.  After age 50, go back to every other year, alternating with mammograms so that one or the other procedure is done yearly.  This approach can greatly reduce the likelihood that a breast tumor will be missed.

With an abnormal thermagram, we recommend that you get an ultrasound in order to determine whether you have a cyst or mass of some kind.  We use several effective, non-invasive strategies to eliminate cysts and prevent future cysts from forming.  If it’s a mass, then a biopsy may be indicated.  If there is no cyst or mass, you can still adopt an anti-cancer nutrition and botanical program on a precautionary basis.

In this way, thermography enables you to be highly proactive about long-term breast health.  It can help you put a stop to the growth and progression of breast cancer long before it becomes a reality, or to treat cancer at an early stage, when it is most curable.  With thermography, you can take steps to ward off a problem that would only be picked up much later by mammography.  By using anti-cancer nutrition, herbal therapy, and other integrative medicine strategies, you can then turn this situation around and get your body back “in the clear.”