Breast cancer screening of the high risk population with clinical examination and thermography. A combination of telethermography and plate thermography.
On a total of 2523 patients, including the High Risk group, a breast screening was made by clinical exploration and Thermography used as a selective method for the cases due for a Mammography. Although the electronic thermographic examination was done according to the criteria established by the School of Marseilles, we excluded from these criteria the vascular asymmetry test. Such a controversial parameter was substituted by the data given by the angiographic analysis of contact thermography. The results obtained were compared to those referenced in a previous study. The analysis of the compiled data indicated that even if we weren 't the sensitivity of the technique, we did get improvements diagnosing less false positive results with the new procedure (91.43%) than with the previous study (87.65%) (p less than 0.001). The predictive Value (+) was 0.4133 in the present group against the previous 0.10, which meant that 41.33% of the cancers diagnosed were true cancers, against 10% in the previous group. Summing up the analysis showed a higher rate of positive global detections (p less than 0,0005) with our present analytic criteria for Thermography.
D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012306:Risk; D013817:Thermography / Q000379:methods*