Dan Parker – CEO and owner, Vitascan TM
No, but full-body scans will become indispensable to traditional exams. Conventional tests for heart disease - cholesterol levels, treadmills - are very poor indicators. And no one likes to endure the invasiveness of a colonoscopy; 85 percent of people currently go untested. The medical and insurance communities will soon realize that a test that costs $1,000 dollars can prevent a heart attack that costs tens of thousands, or cancer that can cost millions.
Suzanne Somers – Patient, actress, and fitness product guru
My unbridled curiosity about what's going on inside my body drove me to get a scan. I am happy to report that everything was normal. It's reassuring to be able to look inside your body and check on plaque in the arteries and on the health of vital organs. I suspect that in the future the scan will become such an integral part of being proactive about one's health, there will be a lot more machines, which hopefully will bring down the cost for everyone.
Ralph P. Lieto – Chair, Radiation Protection Committee, American Association of Physicists in Medicine
There are patients who get the test not because they're displaying any symptoms or because they're in some high-risk group, but just because they have the cash. CT scans represent significant radiation exposure: The dose you get from a mammogram is about two-tenths of a rad; for a CT scan, it can be 10 to 20 times greater. But technology has shown that you can run the same tests with less of a dose, so we're leaving the door open.
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