The Present Status of Mammary Thermography

Haberman, JoAnn D.

doi:10.3322/canjclin.18.6.314

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“…[7][8][9][10] First studies in women with breast cancer showed a mean sensitivity and specificity of 90% of the thermography. [11][12][13][14] Thermography has a sensitivity of 83% in detecting breast cancer in women and thermography associated with mammography has a sensitivity of 95%. 8,15,16 Mammary tumors in dogs are commonly diagnosed by palpation of the mammary gland without complementary exams.…”

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Infrared Thermography in Dogs with Mammary Tumors and Healthy Dogs

Pavelski

Silva

Jesus

et al. 2015

Veterinary Internal Medicne

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BackgroundInfrared thermography is a painless, noninvasive, nonionizing diagnostic imaging exam used in human medicine as an auxiliary tool for breast cancer diagnosis in women.Hypothesis/ObjectivesDefine thermographic mean temperatures of healthy mammary glands and compare these temperatures with those of mammary glands with tumors in dogs.AnimalsFifty client‐owned female dogs were evaluated, including 20 with histopathologically confirmed mammary tumor and 30 clinically healthy (control).MethodsA randomized study using infrared thermography analyzed each mammary gland of the animals from the control group and mammary glands with tumors from the tumor group, then the thermographic temperatures obtained were compared. Thermographic exam was performed in a temperature‐controlled room with a cooled thermographic camera—Flir E‐40 (Flir Systems®)ResultsThere was significantly a higher temperature in the caudal abdominal and inguinal mammary glands than the other glands in the healthy group (P < .05). Dogs with mammary tumors had significantly higher thermographic temperature compared with unaffected glands regardless of the tumor size and the location (P < .05).Conclusions and clinical importanceThe technique seems to be able to assess for the presence of neoplasia within the mammary tissue in bitches. Further investigation is necessary to determine the impact of this technique when adopted clinically.

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Infrared Thermography in Dogs with Mammary Tumors and Healthy Dogs

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Silva

Jesus

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Veterinary Internal Medicne

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“…At the Central Statistical Unit, all of this material was edited, coded, punched on IBM cards, and loaded on to magnetic tape to form a unit record for each patient enrolled in the study. Table 1 shows the total number of patients (3,518) enrolled in the study and the number for whom each procedure was done at each hospital. In a few cases, the physical examination was not done, and the information could not be obtained from the hospital records.…”

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An evaluation of thermography in the detection of breast cancer.A cooperative pilot study

Lilienfeld

Barnes

et al. 1969

Cancer

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A collaborative study of 3,518 patients in several medical centers was designed to determine the sensitivity and specificity of thermography as compared to mammographic and clinical examinations. For 862 patients who had breast surgery or a biopsy, the sensitivity and specificity was 0.823 and 0.784 respectively for physical examinations, 0.721 and 0.798 for thermographic reading with clinical data, and 0.703 and 0.807 for mammography. Of additional interest was the observation that each of the procedures (physical examination, mammography, and thermography) selects different subgroups of cases. The results indicate that further evaluation of thermography as a screening technique for breast cancer is warranted. Such evaluation should be in the form of a controlled clinical trial.

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“…33,34 Approximately 3,000 thermography clinics were operating in the US during this time. No hotspot image was detected in the left breast.…”

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Feasibility of New-generation Infrared Imaging Screening for Breast Cancer in Rural Communities

Gutiérrez-Delgado¹,

Vazquez-Luna²

2010

Oncology &Amp; Hematology Review (US)

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Breast cancer, the most common cancer and the second leading cause of death among women worldwide, remains an important public health problem. More than one million women are newly diagnosed with breast cancer each year, and approximately 500,000 women die annually from this malignancy. Advances in breast cancer therapy have led to improved survival in the last 10 years. However, early breast cancer detection continues to be a clinical challenge. Definition of Infrared ImagingClinical thermography is a non-invasive, non-contact, and non-ionizing radiation imaging technique that detects, records, and forms an image of the temperature distribution on the surface of the body. IR imaging is not related to morphology; it is a functional imaging technology. The physics rationale is that all objects with a temperature above absolute zero KeywordsInfrared imaging, breast thermography, breast cancer, breast cancer screening, thermography, thermal infrared imaging, medical infrared imaging Disclosure:The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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The Present Status of Mammary Thermography

Cited by 25 publications

References 8 publications

Infrared Thermography in Dogs with Mammary Tumors and Healthy Dogs

Infrared Thermography in Dogs with Mammary Tumors and Healthy Dogs

An evaluation of thermography in the detection of breast cancer.A cooperative pilot study

Feasibility of New-generation Infrared Imaging Screening for Breast Cancer in Rural Communities

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