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Integrative Healthcare
Center / Dr. Gary Coller
Bringing together the best
of Traditional, Preventive, & Alternative Healthcare!
Thermography
/ Early Detection
NON-TRAUMATIC
AND RADIATION-FREE
BREAST CANCER SCREENING
Whether
young adult or senior citizen, every woman is at risk of
developing breast cancer. The incidence of breast cancer
is increasing at an alarming rate. In 1950 one in twenty
women developed breast cancer. Now breast cancer is
found in one of every eight women… and it is attacking
younger women all the time!
With this background it is important to make the right choices
and care for your breasts properly. Detecting the
disease early can give you a 97% survival rate.
Detection also gives you more treatment options. To
detect breast cancer the American Cancer Society recommends
self examination of your breasts. It is difficult,
though, for anyone to find a lump until it is nearly an inch
in diameter! This is not early detection of breast
cancer. For that reason doctors recommend mammograms.
But many women hesitate or even refuse mammograms because the
breast compression might be painful, and concerns regarding
x-ray radiation as a risk factor for developing breast cancer.
This is especially true for pre-menopausal females and those
women taking Hormone Replacement Therapy. This is why
the National Cancer Institute does not recommend mammography
for pre-menopausal women.
There is a better alternative. Thermography uses heat
sensitive photographic images to diagnose disease. It is
used to provide graphic illustrations of temperature changes
in areas nourished by branches of specific arteries.
Thermographic testing can spot breast cancers by the formation
of abnormal blood vessels when a tumor is one fifth of a
millimeter in diameter. Studies show that breast cancers
are often diagnosed with thermography 5-8 years before they
can be diagnosed with mammography. Thermography is a
passive test. There is no radiation and no direct
physical contact with the patient.
Thermography is also used to assess the blood flow
restrictions throughout the body. Numerous scientific
studies from around the world conclude that this non-invasive
technique rivals all other diagnostic modalities in the
assessment of a patients potential for stroke, circulation
problems and breast cancer.
Dr. Coller has been utilizing Thermographic testing
since the early 80’s….with great results!
It is now offered at the Integrative Healthcare Center.
For an appointment please call (616) 772-0700 |
