The relationship between thermographic findings and size and depth of tumour in carcinoma of the breast

Abstract

Fifty thermograms of histologically proved breast carcinomas have been analysed without knowledge of the clinical or mammographic findings. Thermographic asymmetry between the breasts was found in 76 per cent of the patients, but in only 64 per cent of the patients was the correct side indicated. Poor correlation has also been found between the thermographic findings and the size of a tumour and its distance from the skin.