This emphasis is on early detection, especially in young women where breast cancers are more invasive, is the goal of any breast-screening programme. Thermal imaging would fulfil this role, with ideally, every woman having a baseline thermogram before their first pregnancy and, if normal, a comparative thermal imaging every few years or after any unilateral breast changes are discovered.
This article, as requested by the National Screening Unit, is to inform prospective patients about the relative effectiveness of thermal imaging. First, there is no harm. Secondly, also positives are most likely not false, but can revert to normal with appropriate guidance and intervention, Sequential comparative thermograms will show whether the breast is improving or deteriorating. Thus, when properly performed and interpreted Thermography will identify abnormal changes associated with breast cancer. Costs are commensurate with mammography although thermal imaging does not get any of the annual $40+ million state subsidy for breast investigations by radiologists. Read more in the main article.