Q. Are there risks of radiation exposure?

A. Our low dose protocols minimize risk to non-calculable levels. The chest CT study exposes the breast tissue to no more radiation than a mammogram (or simply living in Denver for six months!). Our low dose total body technique produces 1/2 to 1/3 of the exposure of a conventional CT study, more than 30 million of which are ordered yearly by doctors in the U.S. for known medical problems.j

A. No single test can find every potential silent problem. Microscopic cancers (those not visible to the naked eye), can't be detected. Certain specific cancers require studies to detect them in their earliest stages (for instance, the PSA test to detect very early prostrate cancer, and mammography to detect early breast cancer). Just like with conventional physical examinations in a physician's office, some abnormalities that are found my be benign, and unimportant. It may take a follow-up study, or in rare cases a biopsy to determine the importance of a finding.