Heart Scan

Heart disease is the leading killer of Americans and with early detection can be effectively treated. The EBT Heart Scan is the most accurate, most validated technology and lowest radiation option for heart disease screening. Front Range Preventive Imaging is one of only two facilities in Colorado offering the EBT Heart Scan.

CT screening for lung cancer in a recent study increased the long term survival to 82%. This is remarkable as the survival is usually less than 10% when diagnosed with Chest X-rays.

"Early detection can save lives!"

CT screening can find lung cancer as small as 2 mm in size. Lung cancer does not show up on chest X-ray until it is over 10 times the size is can be seen on CT. The sooner we find lung cancer the better the cure rate. Stage 1 lung cancers smaller than 15 mm in size were found to be curable over 90% of the time.

Which Scan is Right For You?

HEART SCAN ONLY
If you are a man over the age of 40 or a woman over the age of 50 without risk factors but are appropriately concerned about unexpected early heart disease but you don't have significant exposure to cigarettes-get the heartscan only. If you have significant coronary risk factors (high blood pressure, high cholesterol, tobacco consumption, diabetes, family history or an occupational risk such as a firefighter), you may want to consider getting the heart scan at a younger age.

HEART SCAN-LUNG SCREEN COMBINATION
If you also have a significant exposure to smoking (past or present smoker, passive, etc.) or other known carcinogens, we advise the combination heartscan-lungscan (see lung screening). We will need the name of your physician in case of an abnormality in the chest.

BODY SCAN
Many people request an examination of the heart, lung and abdomen (see Body scan). We will need the name of your physician in case of an abnormality in the total body scan.