How an assessment is structured
The name states an objective, not a promised result.
This page describes how a minus10med assessment is put together, what can be measured and how the scope is decided with your physician. It does not describe products. There is nothing here to choose between, because the scope of your assessment follows from your history and your clinical question rather than from a list.
How the scope is decided
Everything begins with a conversation. Your physician reads your medical history, your symptoms, the results you already hold and what you are trying to understand about your health. From that reading she proposes what should be measured and why, and explains what each measurement can and cannot tell you. You may decline any part of it and still proceed with the rest.
Because the scope is clinical, it varies. One person needs a single day of measurement and a written interpretation. Another needs a narrower, repeated set of measurements over a defined period so that a change can be seen rather than guessed at. A third needs nothing measured at all beyond what their own physician already has, and needs the existing results read properly instead.
What can be measured
Assessment begins with vital signs, a structured medical history and a functional questionnaire, which together decide whether anything further is warranted. Body composition, oxidative stress status, heavy metal exposure, brain health and the biological age and condition of the face and skin can be added where the clinical question calls for them.
Deeper reading is available where it is justified: comprehensive blood and urine analysis, full body ultrasound, cardiometabolic and performance testing including ECG, echocardiography, VO2 max and resting metabolic rate, and AI-assisted full body skin screening. At the molecular level, genomic screening and epigenetic analysis can be added where a genuine question exists that they can answer.
Regenerative therapy, where it is indicated, is prescribed individually and only after measurement. It is never arranged in advance of knowing what the measurements show.
What happens afterwards
Measurement without interpretation is an expense rather than a plan, so every assessment ends in a consultation and a written medical note: what was found, what it means for you, what should change and what should be measured again and when. Remote follow-up over the following four to six weeks is part of the work, so that a plan can be corrected rather than simply issued.
How cost is determined
Cost is determined individually after clinical assessment. You receive a written quotation, specific to you, before anything is arranged. Nothing is sold as a package and no fee is quoted before assessment. VAT treatment is stated on the quotation itself. Further detail is set out on the fees page.
Screening limits
A normal result does not exclude disease. These tests do not replace the national screening programmes for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer, which you should continue to attend. Broad testing produces incidental findings that need further investigation, and that investigation has its own burden and risk.
Examinations using ionising radiation
Examinations using ionising radiation are never included automatically. They are prescribed individually, after clinical assessment, only where the expected benefit for you outweighs the exposure, and the reasoning is recorded. You may decline and still receive the rest of your assessment.
No result is promised
No result is promised. The relationship between physician and patient is an obligation of means, not of result. Individual results vary. Before anything is prescribed, your physician states the evidence level for that specific intervention in your case, and records it.
What do people ask before requesting an assessment?
How is the scope of an assessment decided?
Your physician decides it with you after reading your history, your symptoms and your existing results. Nothing is arranged as a fixed set of items, and nothing is sold as a package.
How long does an assessment take?
A single day in person, between four and nine hours depending on what is measured, with remote follow-up over the following four to six weeks.
Is follow-up part of the work?
Yes. Remote follow-up over four to six weeks is part of every assessment, so that the written plan can be corrected against how you actually respond.
Where does the assessment take place?
At Notia MedCare, a private polyclinic (ιδιωτικό πολυιατρείο) at 127 Vouliagmenis Avenue, 16674 Glyfada, Athens, Greece.