ALLAN D. LIEBERMAN, M.D., F.A.A.E.M

Diplomate, American Board of Environmental Medicine Member, American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine

CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL & ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE, P.A

7510 NORTHFOREST DRIVE • N. CHARLESTON, SC. 29420-4297

Phone 843•572-1600 / Fax 843•572-1795

The Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine is pleased to be the first medical facility in the Charleston area to offer Breast Thermography, utilizing infrared thermal imaging.

Why did we decide to start this program? Here are some of the reasons:

• Breast cancer rates are increasing every year. Today, 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime with a new case diagnosed every 2-1/2 minutes.
• Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women ages 20 – 59.
• This year 39,800 women are expected to die of breast cancer in the United States and, perhaps the most startling of all the data:
• Recovery rates have not improved significantly in more than 40 years.

   

How do we improve our chances of surviving or, better yet, avoiding this diagnosis?

It is clear that the key to breast cancer survival rests with its earliest possible detection. If discovered in its earliest stage, the potential is there not only to significantly improve survival rates (it is said that a 95% cure rate is possible!) BUT to even reverse the process before a cancerous mass is formed!

How can we detect breast cancer risk in its earliest stage?

Breast thermography offers us the best opportunity to identify potentially dangerous changes in breast tissue up to 10 years before a clinically recognizable tumor or malignancy presents itself and can be seen by mammography. The thermogram is able to identify early pre-cancer/cancer cells because it can detect changes which occur in the tissues surrounding the cancer cells. Just as scaffolding goes up at the construction site of a new building, an infrastructure of new blood vessels forms which will nurture and sustain a developing cancer. It is these blood vessel changes with their increased blood flow and heat that Thermography’s ultra-sensitive infrared camera can detect.

Breast Thermography is painless and safe, using no radiation or compression. It can be used effectively and safely for all women including pregnant or nursing women, women with dense breast tissue, and women with breast implants.

Contact our office for more information: 843-572-9933 www.EarlyCancerDetection.com