Health Check-Up

Full Check-Up

A complete health assessment in a single day: laboratory work, imaging, heart testing, and consultations with the specialists your age and history call for — finishing with a physician who goes through every result with you before you fly home.

What the full check-up covers

The package is built around the tests that change management in an adult with no symptoms: metabolic and cardiovascular risk, organ function, common deficiencies, and the cancer screening appropriate to your age and sex. It is assembled from guidelines rather than from a price list.

Where you already have a diagnosis — diabetes, hypertension, thyroid disease, a family cancer history — the package is adjusted rather than sold as-is. That adjustment is made by the physician after reviewing your history, not by a package tier you select online.

What is included

Laboratory

Full blood count, kidney and liver function, fasting glucose and HbA1c, full lipid profile, thyroid function, vitamin D and B12, iron and ferritin, inflammatory markers, and urinalysis.

Cardiovascular

Resting ECG, echocardiogram, blood pressure assessment, and an exercise stress test where age or risk factors make it appropriate. Carotid ultrasound is added for those with vascular risk.

Imaging

Abdominal ultrasound covering liver, gallbladder, pancreas, kidneys and spleen; thyroid ultrasound; chest X-ray. Additional imaging only where a finding or a risk factor justifies it — not by default.

Age-appropriate cancer screening

Mammography or breast ultrasound, cervical HPV testing, PSA discussion, stool-based bowel testing or colonoscopy referral, and a dermatological skin examination — included according to guidelines rather than package tier.

Consultations

Internal medicine as the anchor, plus cardiology, and gynaecology or urology as relevant. A final consultation goes through every result and produces a written report you take with you.

Who it suits

Adults over 35–40 who have not had a structured health assessment recently
Anyone with a family history of heart disease, diabetes or cancer
People whose work or insurance requires periodic screening
Patients travelling for surgery who need a pre-operative baseline anyway
Anyone whose last blood test is more than two years old
Not intended for investigating an active symptom — that needs a targeted consultation, not a screening package
Not suitable during pregnancy without adjusting the imaging component

Preparation

Fast for 10–12 hours — water is allowed and encouraged
Take your regular medications with a little water unless told otherwise; do not stop anything without asking
Bring a written list of all medications, supplements and doses
Bring previous blood results, imaging reports or discs if you have them — comparison over time is worth more than any single value
Avoid alcohol for 48 hours and heavy exercise for 24 hours; both distort liver and muscle markers
Women: schedule outside menstruation for the urine and gynaecological components where possible
Wear comfortable two-piece clothing and bring a list of the questions you actually want answered

How the day runs

You arrive fasting early in the morning. Bloods and urine are taken first so the laboratory has the whole day to process them, then imaging and cardiac testing follow while the results are being run. Specialist consultations are slotted into the gaps rather than left to the end.

The day ends with the part that matters most: a physician sits down with the complete set of results and goes through them one by one, explaining what is normal, what is borderline and why, and what — if anything — needs acting on. You leave with a written report and a copy of every raw result and image.

Duration and practicalities

Duration: one day, typically 08:00 to 16:00
Fasting: 10–12 hours beforehand; breakfast is provided after the bloods
Stay in the country: two nights is comfortable — arrive the evening before, leave the day after
No sedation and no recovery time; you can fly the same evening if you prefer
Results: all delivered and explained the same day
Interpreter provided where needed; the written report is issued in English and can be translated
A companion is welcome and often useful during the final consultation

After the check-up

Everything normal

The most common outcome. You leave with a documented baseline that makes any future change easy to spot, and a recommended date for the next assessment — usually one to two years.

A borderline result

Common and usually not alarming — slightly raised cholesterol, low vitamin D, a mildly abnormal liver enzyme. The physician explains what it means, whether it needs repeating, and what you can change yourself.

Something needing follow-up

Where a finding needs further testing — a thyroid nodule, a suspicious lesion, an abnormal screening result — the next step is arranged before you leave rather than referred back to your own country, and the oncology network behind this service is available for a second opinion.

What you take home

A written report summarising every result with the physician's interpretation, plus the complete raw data — laboratory values with reference ranges, imaging reports, and the images themselves on disc or digital transfer. That completeness is what makes the check-up useful to your own doctor at home.

Keep it. The single most valuable thing a check-up produces is not this year's numbers but the ability to compare them with next time — a cholesterol of 5.4 means little alone and a great deal if it was 4.1 two years ago.

Limitations to be aware of

A normal check-up is a snapshot, not a guarantee of health for the year ahead
False positives are inevitable in any screening; an abnormal result is common and usually benign
Incidental findings — small nodules and cysts — are found frequently and mostly need only reassurance
No package detects every cancer; screening reduces risk, it does not eliminate it
A chest X-ray is not a lung cancer screening test; only low-dose CT in eligible smokers is
Results reflect the day they were taken; acute illness or recent exercise can distort several values
Any new symptom after the check-up still needs assessing on its own merits, whatever the report said

Cost and what should be included

Check-up packages are priced as a bundle, which makes them easy to compare on headline number and hard to compare on content. The question is not how many tests are listed but which ones, and whether the final physician consultation is included or billed separately.

The full itemised list of tests, not a count
Whether the final physician consultation and written report are included
Whether age-appropriate cancer screening is included or charged as an extra
Which imaging is included, and whether any of it is CT
Whether you receive raw results and images, or only a summary
Interpreter and translation of the report if you need it
What happens — and what it costs — if a finding needs immediate further testing

Count what is tested, not how many tests there are

Two packages advertised as "120 tests" can be completely different: one may include colonoscopy, mammography and a full cardiac assessment, the other forty variations of the same blood panel and a stack of tumour markers that should not be there. Ask for the itemised list and check what is actually on it.

Frequently asked questions

Do I really need to fast?

Yes, for the glucose and lipid measurements and for abdominal ultrasound, where food and gas obscure the gallbladder and pancreas. Water is fine and helps — arriving dehydrated makes blood sampling harder and can nudge kidney values.

Should I stop my medication before the tests?

No, not without asking. Blood pressure, thyroid, diabetes and heart medications should be taken as normal — stopping them distorts exactly the values being measured and can be dangerous. Bring the list and let the physician decide what, if anything, needs timing differently.

Is a colonoscopy part of this package?

Not in the one-day package, because it requires bowel preparation the day before and sedation on the day. If you are over 45 and due for bowel screening, either a stool-based test is included here or the VIP two-day package with endoscopy is the better fit — that choice is made with the physician, not upsold.

Can I have this instead of seeing my own doctor?

It complements your own doctor rather than replacing them. A check-up gives a broad snapshot and a documented baseline; your regular physician holds the continuity, knows your history and manages anything ongoing. Take the full report home and give it to them — that is what makes it worth doing.

Have your case reviewed before you decide anything

Send your photographs and medical history. A board-certified surgeon reviews them and comes back with an honest assessment of what is achievable, which technique suits you, and an itemised written quote — before any money changes hands.

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This page provides general information about this procedure; it is not medical advice, a diagnosis, or a treatment recommendation. Capital Oncology Group is a care-coordination service and not a medical provider. All procedures are performed by independent, accredited hospitals and licensed physicians, and the decision to operate must be made by a qualified surgeon after examining you individually.