Breast Thermography in Kitchener-Waterloo
Breast thermography uses a sensitive infrared camera to record the natural heat patterns of the breast and surrounding tissue. There is no contact, no compression and no ionizing radiation — you sit in a quiet, temperature-controlled room while a technician captures a standardized series of images.
Because it records function rather than structure, thermography answers a different question than mammography or ultrasound. It works alongside those tests and your clinical exam, not in place of them.
What Your Images Show
Your images show how heat is distributed across the breast and how closely the two sides match, at the time of your appointment. Standardized technique is what makes that meaningful: a controlled room temperature, time to acclimate and consistent positioning are what let one appointment be compared with the next.
Many everyday things influence those patterns. A thermogram does not diagnose breast cancer or any other condition and it is not a screening test, so please keep to the mammography and clinical-exam schedule your health care provider recommends. If you notice a lump, a skin or nipple change, discharge or persistent pain, contact a health care professional promptly whatever your images show.
What your appointment includes
- Privacy to prepare and time to acclimate to the imaging room.
- A standardized series of infrared images, collected by a trained technician.
- A written report describing the temperature patterns and symmetry observed.
- An unhurried one-to-one conversation to walk through what the report says.
You are welcome to share your report with your health care provider. The report describes what the images show; it does not provide a diagnosis, a prognosis or a personal risk rating, and we will never use it to tell you that a concern has been cleared.
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