Contact thermography method and TOT and DOT apparatus as an alternative to conventional devices and techniques used in diagnosing of breast cancer

Modern medicine actually offers a person an alternative to maintain health through a preventive regular examination, or in case of a disease consult a doctor and then, on his recommendation, conduct adequate treatment. However, if this disease turns out to be cancerous, the situation can be quite threatening for the patient, since the manifestation of such a disease occurs with the development of the tumor to stages, when the life-time of the patient is already shortened. For example, the five-year survival rate of patients with stage IV breast cancer does not exceed 10% of the number of cases, and if breast cancer is detected in stage I, 90 to 95% of patients experience a 5-year period after surgery.1 The time from the appearance of the preclinical stage to the stage when the tumor disease manifests about three-fourths of the total time of the disease cycle before the lethal stage.2 The duration of the cycle itself is determined by the degree of malignancy of the tumor, estimated by the time of doubling cancer cells.