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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PET scans are pretty expensive and work by injecting a bunch of radioactive material into you. It’s an acceptable cost for people who are suspected of having cancer, but if there’s no reason to think you have it, getting a PET scan is only going to make it more likely that you *get* cancer.
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