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It’s good to be on top of your health – but how far would you go to ensure you’re staying healthy?
Ads have popped up for full-body MRIs, promising to catch things from cancer to aneurysms.
Norman and Tegan scan through the potential benefits and risks of looking inside seemingly healthy bodies.
References:
- Principles of screening - Cancer Council
- Incidental Findings and Low-Value Care
- Prevalence of abnormalities in knees detected by MRI in adults without knee osteoarthritis: population based observational study (Framingham Osteoarthritis Study)
- Whole‐body MRI for preventive health screening: A systematic review of the literature
- The effects of incidental findings from whole-body MRI on the frequency of biopsies and detected malignancies or benign conditions in a general population cohort study
- Clinical value of whole-body magnetic resonance imaging in health screening of general adult population
- Long-Term Psychosocial Consequences of Whole-Body Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Reporting of Incidental Findings in a Population-Based Cohort Study
- Impact of whole-body MRI in a general population study
- Elective MRI Screening of the General Public—Buyer Beware
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