Thermography in the detection of breast cancer

Abstract

This report covers our initial experience with thermography in more than 300 patients with symptomatic breast lesions. Thermographic techniques of recording the emission of infrared heat from human breast is based on the principle of Lawson et al., who indicated that the infrared heat from a carcinomatous mass is a result of both local increased cellular metabolism and vascularity. This study was controlled either by biopsy or excision of the lesion. The results indicate that infrared thermography is an extremely useful aid in cancer detection, evaluation of benign conditions in the human breast and as a follow‐up procedure in determining the efficacy of tumor therapy. Copyright © 1966 American Cancer Society