ABSTRACT
Breast cancer is all too common, and there are few reliable methods for detecting the disease in its early stage. Women still having their menses experience an increased fullness in their breasts prior to menstruation, so the best time to examine ones breasts is at the end of ones menstrual period. Standard mammography, the current practice to prevent breast cancer, has become in reality, a program of early diagnosis, aiming for early treatment. Early enthusiasm for mammography was spurred on by the American Cancer Society, in conjunction with the National Cancer Institute, which in the early 1970s established a program of free mammograms at 27 centers. Early thermography as with traditional radiographic mammography depends on vision for interpretation. It noted that thermography has no radiation risk and is less costly than mammography. And continued developmental work on this procedure, as well as other techniques suitable for screening, is needed.
