CONDITIONS
The best defense against disease is early detection
Summers Anti-Aging Center screens for thousands of medical conditions and diseases to give you piece of mind about your health.
39% of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point during their lifetime
Explore common conditions
Breast Cancer
12.5%
1.7
- Stage I: 99%
- Stage IV: 30%
- All stages: 91%
- Breast lump or thickening
- Changes in breast size or shape
- Nipple changes
- Mammogram
- Whole-body MRI
- Mammograms may not detect abnormalities in dense breasts, leading to late diagnoses
- 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer at some point in their life
- 9% of new breast cancer cases are in women younger than 45 years old
Although a mammogram is the standard of care for screening breast cancer, MRI has been shown to be more effective for women with dense breasts. Mammograms have difficulty detecting abnormalities in women (typically premenopausal) with dense breasts, leading to late diagnoses. MRI has been shown to reduce the need for unnecessary breast biopsies as well.
Pancreatic Cancer
1.5%
3.2
- Stage I: 44%
- Stage IV: 3%
- All stages: 12%
- Abdominal pain
- Unexplained weight loss
- Jaundice
- Whole-body MRI
- Blood test
- About 50% of pancreatic cancers are Stage IV when first diagnosed
- Average 5 year survival increases by over 10x when patients are diagnosed early
- On track to become the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths before 2030.
The best protection against pancreatic cancer is early detection. Stage I and II pancreatic cancer have a positive outlook because most tumors can be removed surgically and have high average 5 year survival rates, but the medical community currently has no routine screening available. When pancreatic cancer becomes symptomatic, it is often too late. At our practice, one of our main focuses is diagnosing early stage pancreatic cancer.
Lung Cancer
6.4%
3
- Stage I: 57%
- Stage IV: 5%
- All stages: 19%
- Persistent cough
- Shortness of breath
- Chest pain
- CT
- Whole-body MRI
- Can spread aggressively through blood stream
- Only 16% of lung cancers are diagnosed at an early stage
- People who smoke cigarettes are 15-30x more likely to get or die from lung cancer
No routine screening exists for lung cancer other than a CT in high-risk former smokers. Lung cancer typically does not present symptoms until later stages, which makes screening vital for improving survival rates. Whole-body MRI has been shown to have 97% sensitivity for lung nodules ≥10 mm and comparable to FDG PET with no radiation.
