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And we have a valid diagnostic tool that can offer women, or men additional information,
early detection of some conditions. So if we can give people a heads up and we give
people an opportunity to be proactive in their health concerns then we're doing them a great
service. Tomography by definition is infrared imaging
or heat picture. It is the use of infrared, which is at one end of the color spectrum,
the opposite from ultraviolet. And what we do is we use electronic devices that image
the body's heat patterns. We operate under the premise that the body is a symmetrical
entity. The left side of your body is the same as your right side of your body. We also
recognize that nobody's really completely symmetrical so we allow a certain latitude
from one side to the other. And what we do is we measure temperature gradients to determine
if they fall within those parameters. Temperatures that fall outside those parameters are considered
to be abnormal and the abnormality then has to be determined. That abnormality can be
any number of things, one of which is cancer, but not all of them are.
The FDA approved thermography in 1982 as an adjunct, or an adjunctive procedure to Mammography
in the use of breast disease and breast cancer. What this means is that it was never intended
to be a standalone procedure, as very few tests are in medicine today. We do one test
and almost invariably we do another test to confirm or add more information. The purpose
of thermography in the eyes of the FDA were to provide a physiologic test which would
give us information that the anatomic testing, be it nomography or ultrasound or MRI, which
wasn't available of course in 1982, could add together and provide the individual or
the woman in breast disease, or the man, because men have breast cancer and breast thermography,
enough information to get the complete picture. So the adjunctive test gives the woman, again
or the man, the opportunity to make his or her own decision about exactly what he or
she wants to do in terms of diagnosis. The thermography for early detection of physiologic
abnormalities, the other test for the anatomic confirmation. One before the other, the other
before one, it's an individual preference. Also I should tell you that the American Medical
Assocation in the same year, in 1982, approved thermography as a valid diagnostic test in
four disease states, one of which was breast disease.