1. What You Actually Get for A$3,000–$3,500 MRI in Australia?
A typical Australian "full-body MRI check-up" at that price point gives you: one MRI scan, a limited blood panel, a single consult with GP, and referral to specialists if anything is flagged which may take months
2. Why Travel Overseas for a More Complete View of Your Health?
Why did I decide to introduce these health screening programs to you?
I'm Sarah Hien Tran, CEO and founder of Glamjet. I've lived in Vietnam, South Korea, the UK, the Netherlands, and Australia. I have called Australia home since 2017. In Vietnam, comprehensive health check-ups happen twice a year. No referral. No waiting months for a specialist. You go, you test, and get to see specialists within 2-3 days.
| Vinmec by the numbers | |
|---|---|
| Patients served | 7 million |
| Surgeries conducted | 790,000 |
| Net Excellent Score | 85% |
| International hospitals | 9 across Vietnam |
| JCI accreditations | 3 times (Times City) — first in Vietnam |
| Cleveland Clinic Connected | Yes — Times City and Central Park |
| ACC Cardiology COE | First in Asia with two centres |
| Academic partners | Penn State, University of Sydney, Macquarie University, University of Paris |
World-class equipment:
- Olympus EVIS EXERA III endoscopy system with Narrow Band Imaging (NBI) for early gastrointestinal cancer detection
- Toshiba 640-slice CT scanner — the most advanced model from the brand globally
- Siemens 3.0 Tesla and 1.5 Tesla MRI machines
- Beckman Coulter automated biochemistry and immunology laboratory platforms
- And more....
3. The Comparison Nobody Is Making Publicly
This is simple comparison of what you will receive in our check up programs in Vietnam and just MRI alone in Australia:
| Australia - MRI Package | Vietnam - Advanced | Vietnam - VIP | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Approx. price (AUD) | A$2,990–$3,500 |
A$1,800 including our concierge fee |
A$3,500 including our concierge fee |
| Time required | Couple of hours | Half day | 1.5 days |
| Specialist review | Weeks to months | 2–4 days | 2–4 days |
| Hospital benchmark | N/A. Independent clinic | JCI accreditation | JCI accreditation |
| Total tests | ~10–15 | 65–70 | 100+ |
| Full-body MRI | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| HbA1c (blood sugar trend) | Rarely | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vitamin D | Rarely | ✓ | ✓ |
| Iron, ferritin & zinc | Rarely | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hepatitis B & C | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full thyroid panel | Limited | ✓ | ✓ |
| Kidney (Cystatin C) | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Liver cancer markers (AFP-L3, PIVKA) | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Women's cancer markers (CA-125, HE4) | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cardiac biomarkers (Troponin T, NT-proBNP) | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| GI endoscopy / colonoscopy | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| 10-cancer blood panel (SPOTMAS10) | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Bone density (DEXA) | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Brain vessel Doppler | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Visceral fat CT assessment | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Team-based specialist review | Rare | ✓ | ✓ |
| Coordinated in one visit | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bilingual concierge support | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
The Australian package sells the MRI as the hero. In the Glamjet x Vinmec model, MRI is one instrument inside a much larger strategic investment. The VIP program costs roughly what a local MRI check-up costs and delivers approximately six times more tests, multiple specialist inputs, Cleveland Clinic–benchmarked care, and a complete action plan. In 1.5 days. With specialist review in 2 to 3 days.
4. What An Half-day Advanced Check-Up At Vinmec Can Tell You?
Purpose of the test
To deliver an advanced systems-level audit of your body across every major organ, metabolic pathway, nutritional status, infection risk, and early cancer marker in a coordinated half-day program.
What it can tell you?
About your heart and circulation:
Whether your cholesterol ratios and inflammatory markers are moving you toward cardiovascular disease, and whether your heart is showing early signs of stress through CK levels and ECG changes.
About your blood sugar and metabolism:
Not just your glucose right now, but your HbA1c what your blood sugar has been doing for the past three months. This is how pre-diabetes and Type 2 diabetes are caught before symptoms appear.
About your liver
Whether it is functioning well across multiple enzyme markers, and whether you carry hepatitis A, B, or C infections that many people carry without knowing, and that cause serious liver damage over decades if undetected.
About your kidneys:
Standard creatinine plus Cystatin C a more sensitive marker that detects declining kidney function earlier than conventional testing. Your kidneys can lose a significant percentage of their function before you feel anything. This is how you catch that early.
About your thyroid:
Whether your thyroid is under-active, overactive, or optimal because thyroid dysfunction affects energy, weight, mood, fertility, and cardiovascular health, and is one of the most commonly missed conditions in women.
About your nutritional status:
Your vitamin D, iron, ferritin, zinc, and calcium levels. Deficiencies in these markers affect immunity, bone density, fatigue, mental clarity, and hormonal balance and are almost never tested in a standard GP visit.
About your infection and viral status:
Whether you are protected against or currently carrying hepatitis A, B, and C. Hepatitis B alone affects approximately 296 million people globally, most of whom don't know they have it.
About your cancer risk right now:
AFP, AFP-L3, and PIVKA for early liver cancer signals. CA-125 and HE4 for early ovarian cancer in women. PSA for prostate cancer in men. These are not a diagnosis. They are an early warning flags that prompt further investigation before something becomes serious.
About your lungs, abdomen, and reproductive health:
Chest CT for lung screening, comprehensive abdominal ultrasound across six organs, thyroid imaging, and for women, a full gynaecological assessment including HPV genotyping and mammography. What MRI won't be able to show you:
- With female: your egg count or ovarian reserve which are assessed through blood markers (especially AMH) and transvaginal ultrasound (antral follicle count); your perimenopause and hormonal status are evaluated via symptoms and blood tests (FSH, estradiol, etc.), not structural MRI.
- With male: sperm health (count, motility, morphology, DNA fragmentation) and your hormone balance is measured in semen analysis in the lab, not on a scan.
What it leaves unanswered:
The Advanced program does not include gastrointestinal scoping, so early cancers hidden inside the oesophagus, stomach, or colon will not be directly visualised. It does not include full-body MRI or CT imaging, bone density testing, or the more sensitive cardiac biomarkers like Troponin T and NT-proBNP. For those, you move to the VIP program.
5. What An One-And-Half Day VIP Check-Up At Vinmec Can Tell You?
Purpose of the test
To give as complete information of your health as realistically possible in a single trip using advanced imaging, metabolic mapping, vascular assessment, gastrointestinal cancer screening, nutritional profiling, bone health, and cardiac risk inside 1.5 days program.
What it can tell you
About your heart at a deeper level than advanced program:
Troponin T detects minute amounts of heart muscle damage that precedes a cardiac event and that standard lipid panels, ECGs, or a "clean" MRI will miss entirely (Daubert MA, Jeremias A. 2010). NT‑proBNP is released when the heart is under pressure or stretch and is a powerful prognostic marker in heart failure and coronary disease before symptoms appear (Mayer O Jr, Simon J, Plásková M, Cífková R, Trefil L. 2009). Studies show NT‑proBNP can be a better independent predictor of death and urgent need for advanced care than left ventricular ejection fraction alone (an imaging measure) (Kanyal S et al. 2025). These are the markers used in the most advanced cardiac assessment protocols globally, including at Cleveland Clinic–affiliated centres.
About your brain and vascular system:
Carotid Doppler and Transcranial Doppler measure blood flow in the vessels supplying your brain. Narrowing or turbulence in these vessels is one of the leading predictors of stroke risk and it is completely invisible without this specific test.
About your blood sugar and metabolism:
Not just your glucose right now, but your HbA1c what your blood sugar has been doing for the past three months. This is how pre-diabetes and Type 2 diabetes are caught before symptoms appear.
About your bone density:
DEXA bone densitometry is the gold standard for measuring bone mineral density and diagnosing osteoporosis or osteopenia which is critical for women from perimenopause onward, and for anyone on medications or with nutritional deficiencies that affect bone mineral density. It quantifies bone density at key sites (spine, hip) and gives a T‑score that directly maps to fracture risk and treatment thresholds.MRI can show fractures, bone marrow changes, or tumours, but it does not give a precise numeric bone density value that drive decisions on bone health.
About your gastrointestinal tract from the inside:
MRI can image the bowel and stomach (MR enterography, MR colonography) and is useful for some conditions like Crohn’s disease or staging known tumours. A review of MRI colonography found it cannot replace conventional colonoscopy in assessing of internal inflammation in patients with inflammatory bowel disease ( Schreyer AG et al ., 2005). Endoscopy with direct visualisation and biopsy remains the gold standard for detecting early mucosal changes and removing polyps before they become cancer. Upper GI endoscopy directly visualises your oesophagus, stomach, and duodenum under anaesthesia, using Olympus NBI technology which is the world standard for early cancer detection in the gut. Magnifying NBI has shown very high accuracy (around 95–97% sensitivity and specificity) for small, depressed gastric cancers when combined with white light endoscopy ( Boeriu A et al, 2015). Paired with either a full colonoscopy or the SPOTMAS10 blood panel which screens simultaneously for ten of the most common cancers.About your full structural picture:
Your choice of whole-body MRI with contrast, a targeted 3-part MRI, or whole-body CT with contrast. We pair whole‑body CT with contrast and MRI where each shines (CT for systemic spread and lungs, MRI for specific soft tissues) instead of pretending one tool does everything.
Whole-body CT with IV contrast (e.g. Visipaque 100 ml): CT is faster and often more sensitive than MRI for lung lesions, calcifications, and many solid organ and bone metastases. When combined with contrast, CT excels at mapping arterial and venous phases, arterial disease, and many tumours throughout the body. Whole‑body PET/CT or CT tends to outperform MRI in overall tumour staging accuracy, especially for nodal disease and small pulmonary metastases. In a study of 98 cancer patients, a single whole‑body PET/CT got the overall stage right 77% of the time, versus 54% for whole‑body MRI, and changed far more treatment plans (Antoch GVogt FMFreudenberg LS, et al. 2003). Size-based imaging misses small but aggressive nodes. PET/CT’s metabolic view was correct in 93% of cases for lymph node spread, compared with 79% for whole‑body MRI (Antoch GVogt FMFreudenberg LS, et al. 2003).
PET/CT can be considered a first‑line tool for whole‑body tumour staging, with MRI as a complementary, not replacement, modality.
Why should you care?
The Australian MRI tells you what things look like right now.
The Advanced program tells you what your body is doing metabolically, nutritionally, hormonally, and at a cellular level before anything starts to look wrong.
The VIP program tells you both. Plus what is happening in your gut, your vessels, your bones, and your cardiac muscle at a level of precision that most Australians will never access in their health care here.
6. Who Our Health Screening Program Is For?
Our programs are not for everyone. Our programs are suitable if:
- You care about 4 freedoms: health, finance, time, location.
- You see health as an investment, not a bill to avoid.
- You’re optimising your life so you can work, travel, love, and age on your own terms.
- You’re willing to spend 5 days overseas to combine a serious 0.5 day - 1.5‑day check‑up with a holiday and 2-3 days to see specialists because that feels like a luxury you’ve earned, not a sacrifice.
This is not for:
- People who want the cheapest option.
- People who only act when there’s already a crisis.
- People who are not ready to change anything, even if data shows red flags.
- “What would you give to move a diagnosis from stage IV to stage I?”
- “If future‑you is sitting in an oncology ward, what do you want present‑you to have done differently?”
- "What would you give to spend few more years with your loved ones?"
- Stage I breast cancer: 5‑year survival close to 100%. Stage IV breast cancer: about 20–25% ( Wilkinson at al, 2024)
- Stage I colon cancer: 5‑year survival >90%; stage IV can drop to around 12–16%. (Wagle NS, Nogueira L, Devasia TP, et al., 2025)
Same person can make different choices and have different outcomes.
7. Which Program Should You Choose?
For most people at this level, a full Advanced program should be done yearly after 30 years old. If you haven't had a health check for many years and is a business owner or think of getting a life insurance, you can start with VIP program for your future planning. In between, you maintain with local GP and targeted follow‑up.The real value is the baseline: you know where you started, and what changed.You’re not meant to live in hospitals.
Choose Advanced (65–70 tests, 1.5 days) if:
- You’ve never had a truly comprehensive check and want a serious baseline.
- You care most about: heart, metabolism, liver, kidneys, thyroid, lungs, micronutrients, hepatitis, and key cancer markers.
- You are not ready (or medically don’t need) scopes or full-body MRI/CT yet.
- You want clarity and a plan, without pushing every possible test.
Choose VIP Program if:
- You want to walk away feeling there is almost nothing major we haven’t intentionally looked for.
- You’re a business owner and you know you are your greatest asset
- You’re at higher perceived risk (family history, previous cancers, long‑term lifestyle load) or you simply want the maximum reassurance one trip can buy.
- You resonate with: “This is my once‑every‑X‑years reset. I’m okay investing more to move the unknowns to knowns.”
“If there is something big brewing, I want the highest chance we catch it now, not when it’s already dictating my life.”
Locations
Our health screening programs can be done in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. Please let our agent know your preferred location.
8. How Do I Get Started?
5 simple steps to plan your journey
Step 1: Fill in our consultation form
Fill in our consultation form: https://form.jotform.com/glamjetofficial/request-free-quotes
Step 2: Pay our fees
Payment link: https://buy.stripe.com/eVqbJ26HRbMi1RlfARenS0b
Ref: Your Name - Mobile Number - VIP/Advanced
Advanced Program Options:
- A$1,800 including our concierge fee. Our concierge can help you with booking accommodation & flight (not included).
- A$2,800 including our concierge fee and 5D4N at 4-star hotel at Pullman Hanoi or Grand Mecure Hanoi or equivalent
- A$4,800 including our concierge fee and 5D4N at 5-star hotel at Lotte Hanoi, InterContinental Hanoi Westlake by IHG, or equivalent
VIP Program Options:
- A$3,500 including our concierge fee. Our concierge can help you with booking accommodation & flight (not included).
- $4,500 including our concierge fee and 5D4N at 4-star hotel at Pullman Hanoi or Grand Mecure Hanoi or equivalent
- A$5,500 including our concierge fee and 5D4N at 5-star hotel at Lotte Hanoi, InterContinental Hanoi Westlake by IHG, or equivalent
Step 3: Your holiday is planned for you
Our packages already include:
- coordinate with Vinmec hospital and book your appointment
- our travel agent book flight, hotel, and tours for you
- in-person translation: 5 hours for Advanced and 10 hours for VIP
- single entry visa to Vietnam
- e-sim for 1 person
- fast track immigration
- private aiport-hotel-airport transfers
- program fees
- one initial review with specialists
- documentation to sent to your GP and specialists in Australia for management
Excludes:
- extra tests and diagnosis
- subsequent reviews with specialists after the initial appointment
- any follow-up care in Australia
Add our VIP points concierge service for flights:
Glamjet can help you redeem business class flights for A$1,300–1,900/flight using your points.
Step 1: Tell us your preferences
Share dates, destinations, number of passengers, flexibility.
Step 2: We hunt, you relax
Our team searches airlines and point redemptions that match your criteria. Options land in your inbox as we find them.
Step 3: No match? No charge
If nothing matches, you don't pay.
Step 4: Approve to lock it in
If it is a good option, lock it in.
Step 5: We book, you fly
You log into your frequent flyer account, book the flights, pay taxes, and receive your confirmed itinerary. Or give us access to book for you.
Want your entire holiday redeemed through points?
You have accumulated millions of points through pay.com.au and Yak Pay but don't know how to use them? You don't really travel much? We can issue invoice through our Australian ABN so you can redeem points through rewards. We must add 10% GST and 5% service fee including transfer fees.
Step 4 Arrive and have a luxury holiday
What you can expect?
Day 1 Arrive and get picked up through priority line through immigration. Our driver sends you to your hotel. Have a nice dinner. You must fast 8 hours no gum, candy, water for gastroscopy and colonoscopy
Day 2 Check up from 8:30am/9:00 am. The hospital staff and our translator will take you through different test rooms in the hospitals. Detailed information will be provided when you check in at the hospital. We will need to coordinate to optimise your wait time between rooms. For VIP service, you'll get priority at every room and a dedicated consultant. For advanced program, you'll finish by 2:00-3:00pm. Results can be read the next day. For VIP program, you'll finish at 4:00-5:00pm and come back the next day for few more tests.
Day 3: VIP patient will have check up from 8:30-9:00am until 12:00 noon. Patient with advanced program will enjoy free time to explore city. Each departments will review your tests. If your case is normal, you will meet with our general doctor to review your results same day or on day 4. Specialists will inform hospital team if you need a specialist review. Multidisciplinary team review will be arranged for serious cases.Your review appointment will be arranged within 2-3 business days.
Day 4-5: Our agent can book for you a day tour depending on your specialist appointment. If your results are normal, you are clear to travel to other cities.
Day 6: Return home.
Want to speak to us? Message us on whatsapp or call us on +61402555579.
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Schreyer AG, Rath HC, Kikinis R, Völk M, Schölmerich J, Feuerbach S, Rogler G, Seitz J, Herfarth H. Comparison of magnetic resonance imaging colonography with conventional colonoscopy for the assessment of intestinal inflammation in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a feasibility study. Gut. 2005 Feb;54(2):250-6. doi: 10.1136/gut.2003.037390. PMID: 15647190; PMCID: PMC1774854.
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