mammogram

Thermograms detect infrared rays to show patterns of body temperature. What most people I know who have gotten a thermogram don’t seem to have been told is that thermograms only detect surface bloodflow, so any cancer growth deeper than a few millimeters may not be detected unless it also happens to be large enough to disturb the surface blood flow patterns. Mammograms use radiation to find calcifications hiding anywhere in the breast tissue, even deep ones. What most people who’ve gotten mammograms don’t often hear is that mammograms are really difficult to interpret. The true power of any diagnostic image…