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[The blockage that I had is what they probably call the widow maker,]
[and usually if you have that and you're alone, you're not coming out of that.]
[That's a one shot deal and you're dead.]
[[♪mellow music♪] [Atlantic City, New Jersey]]
[Large plaques in the worst place had a high chance of causing him to have a heart attack.]
[[Dr. David Dowe - Atlantic Medical Imaging] Eighty-six percent of heart attacks]
[are caused by rupture of the eccentric soft plaque, ]
[the plaque that's not causing the blockage.]
[[Al Delvento - New Jersey State Police] Dr. David Dowe was doing this ]
[CT angiography for the state police.]
[So on a whim I came in here and scheduled an appointment.]
[I had never had any symptoms. I never thought that it was leading to something like this.]
[I had coronary blockage in three of my major arteries.]
[One of the real benefits to the patient is they're there, they're looking at their images.]
[If you show them coronary artery disease and say,]
["Look, you have to modify your diet, modify your lifestyle, exercise a little bit more,"]
[They can't deny what you're saying because they're staring at the images of their heart.]
[It is a fabulous motivating tool.]
[Prevention is the way to go. ]
[It's better for the patients, it's better for the healthcare system.]
[Sometimes you don't have the symptoms where you're having a heart attack ]
[until it's too late, and that's probably the road that I was on.]
[And if I didn't have the diagnosis and take corrective action towards that,]
[I would probably be another statistic. That's the bottom line with that.]
[[♪mellow piano music♪] The day I learned that I had breast cancer,]
[I remember feeling numb and kind of dissociated.]
[No woman wants to be told that she has breast cancer.]
[[Dr. Constance Lehman - Seattle Cancer Care Alliance]]
[That is something that many of us live in fear of.]
[[Susan Kiyoko Tomita - Retired Academic] I felt run down, and I thought,]
["Oh, I've been neglecting myself. I haven't had a physical. I haven't had a mammogram."]
["I'd better go and get a checkup."]
[So I went, and there they provided me with information about how I was a high risk patient]
[given my family history and that I should have an MRI.]
[The MRI revealed that I had a small tumor in my left breast]
[that could not be felt, could not be seen by mammogram or ultrasound.]
[If I go into a group of a thousand women and screen them with mammography,]
[I'll find about three to four cancers for every thousand women I screen.]
[Using MRI we'll find 22 cancers or 25 for every thousand women.]
[We've identified a technology that can help us find cancers that otherwise we wouldn't find.]
[I don't think enough women know about the option of having an MRI.]
[I didn't think about it. I always think of having had the MRI as a lifesaver. I do.]
[[narrator] For every success story like these,]
[there are many others of missed opportunity.]
[The technology launching today has the potential to help clinicians close that gap,]
[touch more lives, catch more disease early, ]
[and improve the quality of patient care for all.]
[[♪♪] [GE - Faster. Gentler. Innovative. Enabling Better Patient Care.]]
