Digital infrared thermal imaging as biofeedback tool: monitoring chemotherapy response in a young female with breast cancer mediastinal secondaries

摘要

Data obtained from infra-red thermography (IRT) of a 36 year old female with proven breast cancer secondaries in her mediastinum shows how infrared imaging could be used as a feedback tool to monitor both growth of a tumor as well as its response to treatment. IRT scans have been obtained seven months prior to confirmatory CT scans and weekly during chemotherapy treatment. From the outset the thermal pattern overlying the tumour has remained identifiable, and significantly different from the pattern observed in asymptomatic control subjects.