Diagnostics & Testing

Colon Can­cer
Colon Can­cer is the third most com­mon­ly diag­nosed can­cer in men and women. Last year approx­i­mate­ly 140,000 Amer­i­cans were diag­nosed with col­orec­tal can­cer and over 50,000 of those indi­vid­u­als died from their colon can­cer. Colon Can­cer does not dis­crim­i­nate; rather it affects men and women of all races. It is a silent killer…it often has no symp­toms until it is in a late in an incur­able stage.

Your doc­tor may have recent­ly ordered an MRI, MRA and MRV scan of your head, but your head is spin­ning with what all these acronyms mean. Each type of mag­net­ic field imag­ing test serves a spe­cif­ic pur­pose. Here are the dif­fer­ences between an MRI, MRA and MRV:

In the Unit­ed States, more peo­ple are diag­nosed with skin can­cer each year than all oth­er can­cers com­bined. The best way to detect and treat skin can­cer ear­ly is by sched­ul­ing an annu­al skin exam­i­na­tion with your dermatologist.

In recent years, health care has been focused on pre­ven­tive med­i­cine. Pre­ven­tive med­i­cine empha­sizes the pro­mo­tion of a healthy lifestyle and proac­tive­ly mon­i­tor­ing for var­i­ous health con­di­tions includ­ing hyper­ten­sion, dia­betes or can­cers. To sup­port these efforts, most com­mer­cial insur­ance providers now cov­er the cost of an annu­al well­ness exam pro­vid­ed by an in-net­work provider*. Pre­ven­tive med­ical care is impor­tant because it pro­vides you and your care team with an oppor­tu­ni­ty to assess your cur­rent health, which can be use­ful for antic­i­pat­ing future health care needs.

As heart dis­ease con­tin­ues to be the lead­ing cause of death in the Unit­ed States, seek­ing med­ical atten­tion ear­ly for any pos­si­ble heart-relat­ed symp­toms is crit­i­cal. Learn more about how a Car­dio­Graphe CT Scan can help diag­nose var­i­ous heart conditions. 

Has the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic put a wrench in not only your plans but also your rou­tine health screen­ings? Find out how you can get your health back on track.

In March 2021, the U.S. Pre­ven­tive Ser­vices Task Force, an inde­pen­dent vol­un­teer pan­el of experts in dis­ease pre­ven­tion, released new rec­om­men­da­tions for lung can­cer screen­ings were released. Drs. Vive­ka Bod­di­pal­li and Lek­sh­mi Nair explain who qual­i­fies for year­ly scans to detect lung cancer.

Accord­ing to the Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety, 1 in 8 women will be diag­nosed with breast can­cer in their life­time. While the biggest risk fac­tors of devel­op­ing breast can­cer are your age and gen­der — oth­er fac­tors that can also increase your risk include genet­ic make­up, personal/​family his­to­ry, dense breast tis­sue and more.

Through­out the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, clin­i­cal test­ing has been an impor­tant area of focus. Sift­ing through all the infor­ma­tion avail­able can be quite the task. Learn more about the dif­fer­ent types of tests avail­able to you.

You’ve fol­lowed your physician’s rec­om­men­da­tion and had your year­ly screen­ing mam­mo­gram per­formed, but then you get called back for addi­tion­al imag­ing. Nat­u­ral­ly your ini­tial reac­tion caus­es your blood pres­sure to spike…this is a test that detects breast can­cer after all. How­ev­er, only 10% of women called back for more tests are found to have breast can­cer accord­ing to the Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety. Learn more about call-backs and why it might not nec­es­sar­i­ly be cancer.