Irresponsible Behaviour

Last week I had two ladies tell me that they have had to undergo a mastectomy, even though they had been going for their regular mammograms. In both cases the mammogram failed to pick up their cancer. The purpose of this letter is in the hope of saving more ladies from the same fate.

I consider it shocking that despite all the hype of “October Breast Cancer Month”, ladies are not being told about thermography as an added option when it comes to routine breast cancer screening, which has no radiation and is painless.

Thermography cannot diagnose cancer, but then, neither can mammography do this. Thermography works from a very young age and is excellent with dense, fibrocystic breasts and works well with implants, which are all acknowledged by radiologists to be weak points of mammography. Despite the fact that thermography detects suspicious activity before a tumour has formed & in some cases up to 6 years before a mammogram shows up as suspicious, it does not replace mammography. They work together, but thermography fills this gap and perhaps then there will be fewer mastectomies. Women should be empowered with this knowledge.

I sent this to the Witness out of sheer frustration after having asked them a while ago, including the editor, to do a feature about thermography with no luck.