Role of cancer thermography for detection of breast cancer
Yokoe, T.; Ishida, T.; Ogawa, T.; Iino, Y.; Kawai, T.; Izuo, M.
Gan no Rinsho. Japan Journal of Cancer Clinics 36(8): 885-889
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0021-4949 PMID: 2366324 Document Number: 360901
Out of one hundred and sixty-two patients that examined by contact thermography, forty-five cases involving 55 cancers were assessed for malignancy. The sensitivity and the specificity of this method of testing were 81.5% and 83.5%, respectively. False negative cases included early stage, small sized and papillotubular carcinomas. Twenty-five per cent of the fibroadenoma and mastopathy cases showed false positive findings. Further, half of the phyllodes tumor and mastitis cases also showed false positive findings. Two of six T0, Tis cases (33.3%) were diagnosed as malignant tumors by thermography. Contact thermographic examinations will be more widely used in the near future.