Early Breast Cancer Detection and Screening Using Thermal Imaging

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Breast cancer is a global public health problem mostly affecting women of different age groups. The global incidence of breast cancer is over one million new cases each year, and that number is expected to increase 20% by 2020. “In 2017, there were 13,000 breast cancer incidences of women in Ethiopia. Out of this, 53% of the patient leads to death.” This data shows how much series it is. Having inadequate oncology service and cancer center, very small number of breast imaging device and professionals make the problem difficult to control the spread of breast cancer. But when cancer is detected early either initially or as a relapse incident can often treat successfully. Most medical imaging modalities were initially developed with this specific purpose in mind. However, they lack specificity for several reasons and are less than ideal for regular screening of all individual. Moreover, for accessibility and financial reason, most women are not examined more frequently and it create a long gap during which cancer can develop undetected and increase the chance of the women’s mortality.