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Article Date: 14 Jan 2010 – 4:00 PST
 Under pressure from doctors, some women’s groups and imaging equipment makers, lawmakers are likely to require coverage for more mammograms in health reform legislation than is currently recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the Wall Street [...]

Women Receive “Good News” on Mammography Screening But Is it Really Good News?
Women Have A Safe Alternative to Mammograms to Maintain Annual Screenings
For immediate release from the American College of Clinical Thermology.
 Women of all ages received good news with the recent revision of the government recommendations for screening mammography.  The US Department of Health and [...]

Sunday, November 22, 2009
The Record
Alternative to mammograms
In view of the recent U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations concerning new guidelines for having mammograms, some vital information for women needs to be presented. The new guidelines are for the general population, not those at high risk of breast cancer because of family history or gene [...]

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Breast thermography is a 15 minute non invasive test of physiology. It is a valuable procedure for alerting your doctor to changes that can indicate early stage breast disease.
The benefit of breast thermography is that it offers the opportunity of earlier detection of breast disease than has been possible through breast self examination, doctor examination [...]

The benefits of DITI do vary between age and risk groups.
With the pre mammogram age group (under 50) the benefits of screening to detect any findings or changes that justify additional testing or closer monitoring are simple. With any positive DITI findings in this younger age group, any mammogram and ultrasound sensitivity and specificity will be increased with the [...]

Content from ACCT website
One day there may be a single method for the early detection of breast cancer. Until then, using a combination of methods will increase your chances of detecting cancer in an early stage.
These methods include :

Annual breast thermography screening for women of all ages.
Mammography, when considered appropriate for women who are aged [...]

 Content from ACCT website
90% of Breast Health problems are benign – not Cancer.
Abnormalities may include:

 CYSTS

They are  NOT  related to breast cancer.
 About 60% of women will have at least one cyst during their lifetime.

Cysts are collections of fluids in breast tissue.

They are usually small and do not cause problems, but may increase in size, form a [...]

Santa Monica (myFOXla.com) – Some women are looking away from mammograms to another method of breast cancer screening called “thermography.”