Why can’t everyone get a PET scan every year?

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My former boss got lymph node cancer and had to get PET scans for years after he was in remission to make sure the cancer hadn’t spread. Why couldn’t everyone just get one PET scan every year as a routine check up instead of all the other multiple screenings we are subjected to? Especially because liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, etc, don’t have simple tests, like mammograms, to detect them?

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Because they’re expensive and you receive high radiation doses. It’s not worthy in the end, unless there’s actual suspicion of pathology.

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