Rita Rimmer's Blog – August 2009 Archive (1)

How is breast thermal imaging different than a mammogram?

A mammogram, or an x-ray of the breast, is able to see an anatomical structure, such as tumor, anomalies in breast tissue structure or calcifications that may indicate the presence of a tumor. Mammograms have difficulty with breasts that have very dense tissue, which may cause a cancerous tumor to be missed. Also, mammograms are unable to detect Inflammatory Breast Cancer since there is no tumor formation.

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