Comment by cyberax
14 hours ago
BS. Full body scans are amazing, and should be added to the normal health screening along with blood tests.
Doctors need to get out of the headspace where an MRI is something reserved only to confirm the terminal cancer diagnosis.
Pretty much all the supposed issues are solved by taking the second scan a couple months in the future.
I could dump loads of academic research on you about this topic, but it seems like you’re unwilling to engage.
I read most of the research on this topic. And it's all basically "overdiagnosing".
We had the same story about prostate cancer screening: "overdiagnosing", "people die with prostate cancer but not of prostate cancer", blah blah blah. It turned out that simply adjusting the aggressiveness of follow-up was enough to make prostate cancer result in significantly fewer deaths.
From my point of view: MRI is the ONLY tool that can catch things like pancreatic cancer before it's lethal.