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October 26 , 2006 - A study appears today in the New England Journal of Medicine on CT scanning for the early detection of lung cancer.

Results of the study indicate that screening for lung cancer in high risk patients with high resolution CT scans, such as the LifeScore scanner, results in a potential 92% survival rate.

The high survival rate is due to the ability of the scanner to detect stage 1 tumors, which can be surgically removed before the cancer has spread. The LifeScore Clinic has been performing such scans since the year 2000, when the first results of the study called ELCAP (Early Lung Cancer Action Program) were published.

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September 21 , 2006 -Issue #5 of "The LifeScore Lipid Letter" Newsletter released.

This edition provides a clinical presentation of an asymptomatic 50 year old male with coronary calcium score 397 (over 90th percentile for age/gender).
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September 2, 2006 - SHAPE Report Endorses Routine CT Screening for Men 45-75 and Women 55-75.

In a bold new report, a team of clinicians, pathologists, researchers, and imaging specialists is calling for blanket screening of at-risk asymptomatic men and women for subclinical atherosclerosis using computed tomography (CT) and/or carotid ultrasound.

The Screening for Heart Attack Prevention and Education (SHAPE) task-force report, appearing as a Pfizer-funded supplement to the American Journal of Cardiology (AJC), recommends screening of all at-risk men between the ages of 45 and 75 and all women age 55 to 75 years unless they have none of the following: cholesterol >200 mg/dL, blood pressure >120/80 mm Hg, diabetes, smoking, family history, or metabolic syndrome.

"We believe . . . the time has come to replace the traditional, imprecise risk-factor approach to individual risk assessment in primary prevention with an approach largely based on noninvasive screening for the disease itself (subclinical atherosclerosis)," the report states.

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June 22, 2006 - May 2006 issue of the LifeScore News/Notes newsletter released.

The lead story in this issue is "Seeing Coronary Calcium Helps Motivate Patients"

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June 22, 2006- An article in the June issue of the American Heart Journal entitled "Coronary artery calcium scanning: Clinical paradigms"

The article summarizes the current state of scientific knowledge about coronary calcium and concludes:

"‘The increasing use of CAC scanning for risk assessment is now supported by extensive evidence in appropriately selected patients."

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May 3, 2006 -Issue #4 of "The LifeScore Lipid Letter" Newsletter released.

This edition provides a clinical presentation of a 54 year old woman is seen for a follow-up scan. Her coronary calcium volume score is 670. Her prior score in 2003 was 194.
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March 31, 2006 - Issue #3 of "The LifeScore Lipid Letter" Newsletter released.

This edition provides a clinical presentation of a 59 year old woman was first seen 12/04 with coronary artery calcium (CAC) volume 272mm3 (>95th percentile for age/gender).
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March 17, 2006 - Issue #2 of "The LifeScore Lipid Letter" Newsletter released.

This edition provides a clinical presentation of a 74 year old male with extremely high coronary calcium score. Click here to download the second issue

March 6, 2006 - Dr. Michael Wright has joined forces with Dr. Greg Quinn, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Desktop and Mobile Data Management & Visualization, at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, to work on a portable device, such as a cell phone or PDA, capable of storing and presenting complex visual images imbedded in a patient medical record.

The following links provide more information on this exciting new project:

http://www.ivanhoe.com/science/story/2006/03/114a.html

http://mobile.sdsc.edu/medviz.html

http://www.radiologytoday.net/archive/rt22706p14.shtml

Dr. Wright envisions a day in the not too distant future when patients will be able to download and store visual medical records, including graphical representations of clinical data and imaging studies, for easy portability and personal recordkeeping.

February 14, 2006 - Original research from the LifeScore Clinic appeared in the February 14th issue of the journal Circulation.

The article analyzes results from over a thousand patients seen at the clinic and documents a significant association between plaque in the arteries and calcification of the valves in the heart. This suggests that the process of atherosclerosis is the underlying mechanism for valvular calcification. The clinical significance of the study is that people with calcification of their valves should be carefully evaluated for underlying coronary artery disease. Click here to download the article

February 3, 2006 - The LifeScore Clinic participated in the 2006 American Heart Association Go For Red Legacy Luncheon, a major event for raising awareness of women and heart disease.

LifeScore shared a booth and table with AstraZeneca, and helped spread the word on the prevention of heart disease in women.

Learn about Go For Red at http://www.goredforwomen.org/