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“Saving Lives Through Early Detection”
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of disease
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revolutionary
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electron beam
technology can now provide
17 Years In Business
the patient and physician with critical
information regarding the presence or
absence of disease, and thereby enhance
the patient’s chances of living a long,
healthy, productive life.
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WHO SUPPORTS SCREENING
FOR EARLY DETECTION AND
OR EBT TECHNOLOGY?
Mayo Research Clinic
Johns Hopkins Medical
Center
American Heart
Association
American Cancer
Society
University of Illinois at Chicago
Cedars- Sinai Medical Center
Food & Drug Administration
GE Healthcare
Society of Cardiovascular Computed
Tomography
The University of Wisconsin
Top 5 KILLERS in America…
1. HEART DISEASE
2. LUNG CANCER
3. STROKE
4. COLON CANCER
5. BREAST CANCER / PROSTATE CANCER
HEART CHECK AMERICA
IMAGING NETWORK
EBT Body Scans:
Regarded as the most effective
method for screening out many
potential illnesses or diseases early,
WHEN THEY ARE MOST CURABLE!
EBT Scanning Can safely screen for:
• Cardiac Disease
• Cysts
• Lung Disease
• Tumors
• Lung Cancer
• Bone Densities
• Colon Cancer
• Osteoporosis
• Pancreatic Disease
• Arthritis
•Aneurysm
•Kidney Stones
• Gall Stones
• SAFE!
• FAST!
• PAINLESS!
• CLINICALLY PROVEN!
• AFFORDABLE!
• LIFE SAVING!
•NECESSARY!
THE BODY SCAN:
“Saving Lives Through Early Detection”
Oprah Winfrey
on
The EBT CT Body
Scan
THE BODY SCAN
START SCAN
START SCAN
Lungs
Heart
Stomach
Liver
Kidney
Aorta
END SCAN
END SCAN
The Problem: Silent Heart Disease
Deaths From Heart Disease
No Warning
Warning
70
1st Symptom- Sudden Death
2nd Symptom- Heart Attack
3rd Symptom- Chest Pain
4th Symptom- Shortness of Breath
60
Diagnosing Heart Disease
50
1st Step- Stress Test
2nd Step- Angiogram
40
Barbara
Walters
3 Step- Invasive Procedure
rd
30
20
10
0
Men
Women
Report on nonsymptomatic heart
disease and EBT
Technology
70% of all people who suffer from a heart attack would PASS a stress test.
- American College of Cardiology
Question: What Did
These
Two Have In Common?
Answer:
No Symptoms.
Diane
Sawyer
Daryl Kyle, Died of
Heart Attack at Age 35.
Tim Russert, Died of a
Heart Attack at Age 58.
90% of all heart attacks are caused by Silent Heart Disease.
Good Morning
70% of all peopleAmerica
who have a heart attack would PASS a
- Steven Nissen, MD, FACC, President of American College of Cardiology
Nuclear Stress Test 1 hour before their event.
- American College of Cardiology
Examples of Coronary Artery
Scans
NO
MODERATE
SIGNIFICANT
CALCIFICATION
CALCIFICATION
CALCIFICATION
No Calcification: Less that 1% chance of
having an event in the next 10 years.
Moderate- Significant Calcification:
Screening is provided as a baseline to track
progression or reversal of disease.
Track Your Plaque
Typical Progression of
Atherosclerosis
“Greater than 90% of all heart attacks are
caused by silent heart disease.”
– Steven Nissan, MD, FACC, National President of
American College of Cardiology
Soft
plaque
grows
over
years
Dan Rather
Report on
Heart Scan
Plaque
may
develop a
calcified
shell
Plaque
ruptures
forming a
thrombus
Complex
calcified
plaque
forms
“Actual
cross-section”
“The EBT Heart Scan can accurately diagnose Heart Disease in seemingly
healthy people. EBT is the ‘Gold Standard’ for calcium scoring.”
- The American Heart Association
EBT LUNG SCAN:
This year alone, Lung Cancer will claim the lives of 160,000 individuals.
Lung Cancer kills more people than Breast, Colon and Prostate cancers
COMBINED.
Generally, There are no known symptoms until advanced
disease exists, with a 15% survival rate.
EBT Scanning is the ONLY proven screening that ACCURATELY detects Lung
Diseases early, when they are MOST CURABLE!
The American Cancer Society reports the survival rate for Lung Cancer
is 12%-15% due to a lack of early detection.
EBT LUNG SCAN:
Electron Beam Tomography (CT) Scan- Gives a more detailed
Chest X-Ray- The most common test used to detect lung cancer.
picture than chest x-rays. CT Scans detect extremely small tumors
Tumors may be seen on a chest x-ray, unless the tumors are too
and can determine if the tumor has spread to lymph nodes
small or hidden by a bone.
surrounding the lungs.
“No More Excuses.
CT Scanning allows
at More
least 80% of
lung cancers to
No
Lung
be diagnosed at Stage 1.
The Curability of Stage
1 lung cancers is 80-90%
Cancer.”
when Annual CT screening is used.
“Using EBT CT Screening for Lung Cancer can detect disease
at the earliest stage in 85% of patients. The estimated 10 year
survival rate goes to 92%, for those detected early.”
-Claudia Henschke, MD and David Yankelevitz, MD
The New England Journal of Medicine
The American Lung Association states 1 in 7 people
die from Lung Disease.
HAVE YOU BEEN SCREENED ?
Chest X-Ray
EBT Scan
Do Non-Smokers Get Lung Cancer?
Dana Reeve, the sunny and vibrant widow of Christopher Reeve,
died of lung cancer at the age of 44.
Can Anyone Get Lung Cancer?
Peter Jennings, ABC News anchor died of lung
cancer, Aug. 7, 2005. He was 67.
THE KIDNEY SCAN:
When kidney cancer spreads outside the kidney, cancer
cells are often found in nearby lymph nodes. Kidney
cancer also may spread to the lungs, bones, or liver.
And it may spread from one kidney to the other.
– National Cancer Institute
EBT CT- CT scans use computers to create more-detailed images than
those produced by conventional X-rays.
Symptoms:
- Fever
- Weight loss
- Feeling very tired or having a general feeling of poor health
- Pain in the side that does not go away
- A lump or mass in the side or the abdomen
- Blood in the urine
The American Cancer Society states EARLY DETECTION is the most
successful way to treat cancers.
THE LIVER SCAN:
“THE SILENT DISEASE”…
Symptoms:
Liver Cancer is sometimes called a "silent
disease" because in an early stage it often
does not cause symptoms.
The American Cancer
- Fever
- Weight loss
Society states the
- Nausea and vomiting
survival
rate for Liver
- Weakness or feeling very
tired
- Loss of appetite and feelings
of fullness
Cancer
is 10.8%.
- Swollen abdomen (bloating)
- Yellow skin and eyes, and dark urine from blood
- Pain in the upper abdomen on the right side
- Pain may extend to the back and shoulder
The American Cancer Society states survival
rates are much higher with routine screening.
THE PANCREATIC SCAN:
Pancreatic cancer spreads rapidly and is seldom detected in its early stages.
Theand
American
Cancer
Society
states
all survival
rate for
Signs
symptoms
may not
appear
until the
the over
disease
is quite advanced.
Pancreatic Cancer is LESS THAN 10%.
By that time, the cancer is likely to have spread to other parts of the body
and surgical removal is no longer possible.
The survival rate of
Symptoms:
Pancreatic Cancer, from
The Mayo Clinic studied EBT CT
- Pain in the Upper Abdomen
scans of Pancreatic
Cancer
the
time
of diagnosis, is
- Loss of Appetite/
Weight
loss
patients and found had they
commonly
- Nausea and been
Vomiting
scanned
six months 3-6 months.
thevery
cancer
- Weaknesssooner,
or feeling
tiredwould have
been treatable with surgery.
- Itching
- Yellow skin and eyes, and dark urine
THE AORTIC SCAN:
“Aneurysms are difficult to diagnose because symptoms do not
arise until the bulging artery begins to leak. Proactive screening
is the key.”
- Dr. K Ouriel, The Cleveland Clinic
- Most aneurysms occur in the aorta, the main artery
traveling from the heart through the chest and abdomen.
- 66% of those who suffer from a ruptured aneurysm will
die before reaching a hospital.
- Of those who reach the hospital, 20% will die before
an operation.
- 75% of the time, aneurysms are found by chance during an xray, ultrasound, or CT Scan performed for another reason, such
as chest or abdominal pain.
- Overall, Aneurysm survival rate is 49%.
Aneurysm
THE BONE DENSITY SCAN:
Osteoporosis is a major public health threat for an
estimated 44 million Americans.
While osteoporosis is often thought of as an older
person's disease, it can strike at any age.
Good Bone
Density
Poor Bone
Density
Osteoporosis is responsible for nearly 3 million deaths each year.
National Osteoporosis Foundation
LIBRARY OF FULL BODY OF SCANS:
The Body Scan
Abdominal Aortic Scan
The Heart Scan
The Lung Scan
Bone Density Scan
Solid Organ Scan
Contrast medium has been used in some of these images.
THE VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY:
The EBT Scanner is FDA approved to perform NON-INVASIVE
Virtual Colonoscopies.
WHAT DO DOCTORS HAVE TO
SAY?
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colorectal
cancer
patients had
early
and
clinically
significant
stage lung cancers
polyps,
with noand is the only full structural
colorectal
examination
thatThat
alsomeans
permits
lymph node
involvement.
evaluation
of the extra
that their chance
for acolonic
cure is organs
at leastof
the
abdomen
andto
pelvis.“
80%,
compared
the overall cure rate
for lung cancer of only 14%.“
Ira Scott Smalberg, M.D.,
Tower Imaging Medical Group
Robert Hills,
J. McKenna,
Jr., M.D.,F.A.C.S.
Beverly
CA
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA
"EBCT is the most
"QCT
is a precise
important
advance in
and accurate
method
medicine in the last
for following
patients
generation.
It's 10 times
treated for osteoporosis
more powerful at
using
a
of
predicting variety
risk of Coronary
therapies.“
Artery
Disease than
anything else.“
Jean M.Weigert, M.D., et al
Presented at the 4th Annual Scientific
Harvey
Hecht, M.D.,Society
president
of the Society
Meeting,
International
of Clinical
of Atherosclerosis
Imaging
in
Diagnostic
Densitometry, January 1998Imaging
Online,
October 17, 2000
WHAT DO EBT PATIENTS HAVE
TO SAY?
"The surgeon who removed the
"I hadlobe
a surgical
lower
of my left lung said I
menopause
my
should be theinposter
mid-thirties,
child
for lung and
cancer screening.
I’ve
been
taking
And that’s exactly what I’d like to
thyroid
medication
be
– for the
next 50 years!“
for 10 years.
I know
both of age 55
Steve
Sugarman,
these
increase
my
La
Palma,
CA
risk for osteoporosis,
so I always
was thrilled
"I’ve
beenthe
as healthy
scan
showed
my
as a horse and never had a
bone pain
density
wasentire
normal
Chest
in my
life.for my age.“
"When I mentioned to a
friend that I’d just had a
heart and lung scan, he
seemed surprised. He told
"Heart disease kills 12
me he couldn’t think of one
times as many American
good reason to get tested.
women as breast cancer
I told him I have 4 excellent
and 100 times as many as
reasons - Anne, Danny,
cervical cancer. Many,
David, and Tommy. I feel
many women have regular
really blessed to have such
mammograms and Pap
a wonderful family, and you
smears. It seems obvious
better believe I’m going to
to me that we should
do everything within my
be getting regular coronary scans as well.”
power to see that my boys have their dad around for
many years to come."
Then one of my buddies
Sandye Schur, age 50
Suggested
that a group of us
Los Angeles, CA
Eva Lapham, age 57
get tested, and wouldn't you
West
Hollywood, CA
"I had no symptoms at all,
know it - I was the one with
John Martin, age 44
and yet I had a large
serious heart disease. I was
Northbrook, IL
malignancy
on
my
right
kidney.
totally shocked and so was my
to think what might have
doctor, but further testing confirmed the diagnosis.II hate
had angioplasty
if my man.“
wife hadn't been watching
performed within days and my surgeon said I washappened
one very lucky
Oprah when she was talking about her Body Scan.“
Frank Ward, age 49
Blue Island, IL
Chuck Cluck, age 59
San Bernadino, CA
OUR MISSION:
Heart Check America Imaging
Centers, Inc. are driven to provide
specialized non-invasive services,
which focus on early detection,
creating an environment that
educates and informs people,
allowing them to take personal
responsibility for their own
healthcare needs.
NON-NETWORK PRICING:
Procedure Description
Price
CT of the Heart
$395.00
Lung Scan
$395.00
Heart & Lung
$695.00
CT of the Abdomen
$299.00
CT of the Pelvis
$395.00
QCT Bone Mineral Densitometry
$299.00
Oblique 3-dimensional reconstruction
$200.00
Full Body Scan
$995.00
10 Year Preventative Total for Husband and Wife:
$19,990
PER
PER
COUPLE!
PERSON
Heart Check America
1st Visit Incentive:
PLATINUM Early Detection Network
Purchase Price
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Down Payment
$590.00
Monthly Payment $183.00
10 Year Renewal Fee $299
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Purchase Price
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Down Payment
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Monthly Payment $126.00
5 Year Renewal Fee $299
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