Breast Thermography Center

Who Benefits Most from Thermography?

Rainbow scale thermogram

Women with dense breast tissue
Younger women (30–50) who want proactive screening
Women with family history who want more frequent, safe monitoring
Those who cannot tolerate compression or radiation
Women seeking full-body inflammation insights (thyroid, dental, lymphatic, cardiovascular areas)

Real Client Example: “Cassie”, 25, had a family history of cancer, her doctor recommended a mammogram as a baseline but her insurance wouldn’t cover it. She also wasn’t keen on the radiation and smashing. Her thermography scan was as good as it could be and she felt relieved.

Lifestyle Tips to Improve Your Thermal Patterns

Steps to support healthier breast and body terrain:

Switch to chemical-free personal care and cleaning products
Eat more anti-inflammatory foods (berries, leafy greens, turmeric, omega-3s)
Support gentle daily detox (sauna, dry brushing, adequate hydration)
Prioritize stress reduction and emotional clearing
Maintain healthy hormone balance through sleep, movement, and nutrition

Ready to Take Charge of Your Breast Health?

Thermography is an excellent addition to your wellness toolkit.

Christine Banerjee, MCHFS, CTT

Helping women uncover answers and reclaim their health naturally.

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Thermography vs Mammography

Thermography vs Mammography: A pain-free, radiation-free option every woman should know about

What if there was a way to screen for breast health changes that involved no squeezing, no radiation, and no discomfort — and could be done at any age?

For many women in the Greater Chicago area, thermography is that empowering option. At the Breast Thermography Center, we offer this non-invasive tool as part of a comprehensive root-cause approach to women’s health.

The Limitations of Traditional Mammography

Mammograms remain the standard screening tool recommended by most conventional organizations, and they do save lives by detecting some cancers. However, they come with drawbacks that many of our clients experience firsthand:

Radiation exposure (even small amounts add up over years)
Painful breast compression — especially difficult for women with dense or fibrocystic breasts
Reduced accuracy in dense breast tissue (common in younger women and about 40-50% of women overall)
False positives leading to unnecessary biopsies and anxiety
Focus on structural changes — meaning it often detects issues only after they’ve formed

If you’ve ever dreaded your annual mammogram or been told “your dense breasts make it harder to see,” you’re not alone.

What Is Breast Thermography?

Thermography (also called digital infrared thermal imaging) is a physiological test. It uses a highly sensitive infrared camera to detect subtle temperature differences and heat patterns on the surface of the skin.

These heat patterns can reveal:

Increased blood flow or angiogenesis (new blood vessel formation)
Inflammation
Hormonal influences
Lymphatic congestion
Early vascular changes

Because it measures function rather than structure, thermography can show signs of imbalance years before a mass becomes visible on a mammogram.

Clear Comparison: Thermography vs. Mammography vs. Ultrasound

Feature	Thermography	Mammography	Ultrasound
Radiation	None	Yes, X-ray	None
Compression/Pain	None — camera is 3–4 feet away	Yes — often painful	None (but probe pressure)
Best For	Dense breasts, younger women, monitoring changes	Structural abnormalities	Cysts, lumps in dense tissue
Detection Style	Physiological (vascular patterns/inflammation)	Anatomical (masses/calcifications)	Anatomical (sound waves)
Frequency	Safe for annual or semi-annual use	Typically every 1–2 years	As needed
Whole-Body Option	Yes (full-body scans available)	Breast-only	Limited

Thermography is adjunctive to mammography — many women choose to use both for the most complete picture.

Real Client Example: “Connie” 38, had dense breasts and wasn’t interested in mammograms due to pain and radiation concerns. Her first thermography scan revealed unusual heat patterns in one breast and thyroid area. This prompted further gentle investigation and lifestyle changes (anti-inflammatory diet, detox support, stress reduction). Follow-up imaging showed improvement, giving her peace of mind and actionable steps.

Schedule your thermography for peace of mind today. Serving Mundelein and the Greater Chicago area.

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New -Monthly Breast Health Support

Throughout the year I help many women with breast heath through thermal imaging, ultrasounds and lifestyle recommendations to reduce risks. I thought it would be great to have ongoing support on a monthly basis so here it is:

I will search thousands of items each month just for you using NuVision to look at personalized solutions to support your breast health. Each month your will get a report with what is personally most beneficial and most detrimental to your breast health.

You don’t have to wait for a diagnosis to consider your breast health. Many simple things can be done every day to positively impact and reduce breast cancer risks. Knowing the perfect things for you is worth knowing. $5/month subscription introductory offer.

Join the group. Text “join BH group” to 224-358-2741.

Self Breast Exam

Do you check your breast monthly? Every so often? Do you feel confident that you are doing it right? A proper self-breast exam isn’t hard, and it isn’t that much time to invest in yourself and your health. It can certainly bring peace of mind and you don’t have to wait for your yearly physical. Besides, you know your breast best! 50% or more cancers are found this way. Be aware and observant but not fearful. Breast tissue can change month to month, with our cycles, stress, or lymphatic health. You may notice lumps that appear and disappear or changes that happen when you do something different. These are all normal. A regular practice of self-breast exam can help you determine what is normal to you and what is new. Dr. Christiane Northrup says, “to project light from your hands into your breast when doing your “exam”. Think good thoughts and say nice things while you are performing the exam. Things like:

“I am peaceful. The cells in my body work perfectly. My immune system is functioning optimally. I let go with love and trust. I am worthy. I am confident, calm and capable.” Anything at all that is encouraging and kind to yourself. Please do not say anything negative: “I hope I don’t find…., I don’t want the big “C”.

How to do a great self-breast exam adapted from My Breast Friend method:

Give yourself time in a comfortable place and flat on your back. Turn or use extra pillows if needed, gravity you know. 😉 Use your arm as a pillow and cross over your body to exam opposite breast tissue. Start under the arm and go down in grid pattern. Be sure to go under breast and up to collar using three fingers to make circles using light medium and firm pressure in the same location. Then move one finger length over and start again until the whole breast is covered in the grid pattern, up to collar bone and down under breast tissue. Switch to other side when done with the first. Pay especially close attention to upper outer quadrant near under arm, 85% of cancers are found here.

Check out My Breast Friend for full detail and a great practice tool.

What do you need the most?

NuVision is truly innovative technology and can be a game changer in the way you evaluate and approach your health and seek the best for your well-being. Finding custom solutions just for you. Designed in Europe by Holographic Scientists, and a TX naturopathic Doctor on is a technology that has over 50,000 items in its database that can be used to test your personal hologram with incredible accuracy. Imagine being muscle tested for over 50,000 health related possibilities all at once?

Discover the cause and best solution in these areas: •Allergies and Food Sensitives • Breast Health • Dental • Digestion / Gut Health • Disease Residue • Emotions • Immune System • Nutrient Deficiencies • Sleep • Spine • Thyroid • Environmental Toxins • Heavy Metals • Pain • Pathogens • Geopathic Stressors • Self- Care • and More.

How can this work? Everything has a measurable energy frequency. Each person’s energy is unique like a fingerprint. Our frequencies are all connected, and we can be found in the energetic field. NuVision is a database of all of these frequencies that can be matched with your resonance. Asking your body what is going on. NuVision finds targeted solutions/remedies that best resonate with you and the issue. NuVision sends energetic support to restore balance and vitality to your body.

To really get to the root cause, a filter of all the issues is added to the program and it asks your body what the causes and solutions are. As the practitioner I look at all the information and decern what theme or what the biggest concerns are and make recommendations.

Embrace NuVision technology and be in control of your own health and wellbeing!

Frequency at the Breast Thermography Center

Micro Current Frequency Analysis & Sessions

Healy is a microcurrent medical device that has been cleared by the FDA for relief of acute, chronic, and arthritis pain and muscle soreness due to overexertion. Healy also has non-medical applications using individualized frequencies to help balance your mind, body and relieve stress.

This body tune up device offers applications to help you stay fit, bio energetically regenerate and reduce pain. Healy is meant to help you to increase your vitality to improve the flow of your energy reserves and to activate your energy reservoirs. We are noticing incredible results using frequency.

Based on over a decade of experience with over 2,500 doctors and therapists and over 500,000 users, this cutting edge product uses 140 specific programs spanning 144,000 frequencies, all built to enhance every area of your life and positively impact the lives of hundreds of millions.

It is the high energy molecule that stores the energy we need to do just about everything we do. Body cells lose energy over time. With proper frequencies body cells can increase energy levels and repair damage in the body. Frequencies can bring back energy to cells and help the body and organs function more effectively.

Frequencies have been shown to enhance:
Energy, Strength, Fitness, Balance, Mood, Learning, Sleep, Beauty, Immune response, and so much more. Frequencies have also been shown to assist with discomfort and improve health conditions.

How does it work?

The transport of matter into and out of the cell occurs through a somewhat magnetically controlled valve mechanism. The voltage potential, i.e., the difference between the voltage inside the cell and the voltage between the cells, is responsible for healthy (physiological) cell metabolism. This mechanism explains why frequencies can be applied for many different purposes and disorders.

Fun new ways to support you on your wellness journey.

At the Breast Thermography Center, we have been working hard during our stay at home orders. Wanting to bring you more ways to dig into your wellness. We searched for tools to add knowledge to your health decisions. We are super excited to add 4 new programs to our health tool box.

Micro Current Analysis and Sessions-Healthy cells make healthy organs, healthy organs make healthy people!

This body tune up uses individualized frequencies to help balance your mind and body and relieves stress. This device offers applications to help you stay fit, bio energetically regenerate and reduce pain. Micro current frequency will help to increase your vitality and improve the flow of your energy reserves.

Come in for an assessment and see what your body is asking for.

The Soul Essence Technique helps you let go of what is holding you back from success and happiness. It can shift your hidden beliefs and emotional patterns that are blocking you from the life you are meant to live. Using essential oils and other products to work through emotional areas needing support.

The Itovi DNA

If your DNA could talk, what would it say about you? Unlock the secrets of your genetics and match wellness products to you based off your unique genetics.

Viome’s Gut Intelligence™ Test

Analyzes your microbiome, providing precise food & supplement recommendations determined by your stool. When the microbes in your gut are out of balance, your body can’t absorb nutrients the way it should.

Ultrasounds at BTC

We are so excited to introduce Polsono Mobile Ultrasound and announce they will be offering Ultrasounds starting January 15, 2020. Ultrasounds are a great addition to breast health monitoring.

Ultrasound Examinations are:

Non- Invasive
Painless
Affordable
Life-Saving
State-of-the-Art Ultrasound Comes To You.

Diagnostic ultrasound is a non-invasive screening which aides in the early detection of potentially life threatening conditions such as blood clots or cancerous masses. Ultrasound imaging is a painless medical technique used to generate real-time images of body’s organs, blood vessels, and internal structure which helps physicians diagnose and treat medical conditions.

The Polsono team is dedicated to providing you with the quality and compassionate care that you deserve. They specialize in a variety of imaging examinations including: general, cardiac, vascular, and OB.

Echo ultrasounds provide a live picture of the heart. This examination takes a closer look at the size and shape of the heart and shape of the heart muscle as well as at the competency of the heart valves to determine if the heart has sustained any damage.

Abdominal ultrasounds assist in the diagnosis of abdominal pains which can be attributed to liver, gallbladder, or pancreas disease.

Right Upper Quadrant This exam is effective in identifying liver or gallbladder disease and depicts right kidney pathology.

Renal (Kidney) Ultrasound Kidney screenings are effective in the early detection of painful kidney stones and potentially cancerous cysts.

Renal Artery Duplex Renal artery scans aide in the diagnosis of high blood pressure and kidney disease.

Abdominal Aorta* This ultrasound examines the abdominal aorta and aides in the early detection of developing aneurysms.

Thyroid Ultrasound Thyroid ultrasounds inspect improperly functioning thyroids and can detect potentially cancerous masses or cysts.

Pelvic Ultrasound** Pelvic ultrasounds aide in the early detection of cervical, utarin, and ovarian cancers. An additional intra-vaginal examination which utilizes a high frequency probe to detect subtle differences between benign and malignant cystic structures is also available.

Breast Ultrasound Breast ultrasounds help diagnose breast abnormalities. They are an effective way to detect difficult to find breast cancers.

Venous (Extremities) Venous ultrasounds are generally used to detect blood clots in the legs or arms. Early detection of clots is Ultrasound imperative in the prevention of potentially life threatening conditions.

Carotid Duplex Carotid artery scans aid in the detection of potentially harmful plaque build-up or blood clots. A Doppler ultrasound may be administered to examine the condition and blood flow of the blood vessels.

Arterial Duplex Arterial duplex ultrasounds examine the lower and upper extremities to assist in the diagnosis of arterial (Extremities) narrowing or arterial disease.

OB OB ultrasounds accurately depict fetal anatomy and aide in the detection of maternal abnormalities.

Patient Prep Instructions

*Fasting Prep: Patients are not to eat or drink anything for at least 6-8 hours prior to the following ultrasound examinations:

Abdominal Ultrasound
Gallbladder / Liver / Pancreas
Renal Artery
Aorta

**Full Bladder Prep: Patients should drink a minimum of 32oz. (4 cups) of water prior to the examination. Please refrain from using the bathroom. Full bladder prep is required for the following examinations:

Pelvic Ultrasound
Prostate Scan

Ultrasound services are available by appointment only. Call the Breast Thermography Center 224-358-2741 to schedule your appointment.

How Thermography Works

It’s all about the skin and a special infrared camera. Thermography can be used as a whole body analysis for assessing surface heat temperatures that can be correlated to health or abnormalities. Corresponding research over 30+ years has created standards of measurement. Uses for thermography are similar to that of an oral thermometer, a stethoscope, or any other medical tool that brings together a better physiological assessment of a patient.

The human body emits infrared radiation that a sensor on the thermal camera reads and translates into a temperature map. In certain areas a temperature variances of even 1 degree can indicate an abnormality in the body. A specialized high tech infrared thermal camera, a trained certified thermographer and an experienced interpreter (like a radiologist reading an x-ray) are the most important aspects to medical thermography.

Does Insurance Cover Thermography?

This is the most often asked question I get whenever I talk with people about Thermography. The answer is yes and no.

Yes, health savings plans and flexible spending plans can be used to pay for your thermographic scans. Whether it’s using a card with funds or submitting the receipt, both ways work. Many of our clients love having a choice where their insurance dollars go and what they can use them for.

No, in the traditional insurance sense. We cannot submit scans to insurance. At first, I was frustrated by this fact. But after I thought about it more, I’m glad. With insurance comes rules, regulations, and restrictions. Some of our clients would not be able to get the scan when they wanted for whatever they wanted because of these restrictions.

In my opinion, the more information you have to make health decisions the better. Thermography is an excellent tool to provide more information and monitor wellness. If you changed your lifestyle and want to see if there is improvement, get a scan. Started taking a medication and want to see if it is working, get a scan. Have a concern, get a scan. You as the client decide how often you want to scan and for what purpose.

I’m thankful anyone who wants to have a thermographic scan can get one. No need for approvals, Dr. order or some company saying you can’t. Knowledge is power. The more information the better.