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Comment author: private_messaging 12 January 2014 09:33:32PM 1 point [-]

I wonder how good of an idea is a yearly full body MRI for early cancer detection...

Comment author: CellBioGuy 13 January 2014 12:53:41AM 1 point [-]

There are those that argue that it's more likely to find something benign you've always had and wouldn't hurt you but you never knew about, seeing as we all have weird things in us, leading to unnecessary treatments which have risks.

Comment author: private_messaging 13 January 2014 08:10:56PM 4 points [-]

What's about growing weird things?

Here we very often use ultrasound (and the ultrasound is done by the medical doctor rather than by a technician), it finds weird things very very well and the solution is simply to follow up later and see if its growing.

Comment author: bogus 13 January 2014 03:07:39AM 0 points [-]

There are those that argue that it's more likely to find something benign you've always had

This can only decrease the amount of useful information you'd get from the MRI, though - it can't convert a benefit into a cost. After all, if the MRI doesn't show more than the expected amount of weirdness, you should avoid costly treatments.

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