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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I get CT Scans and X-rays twice yearly as part of my survivorship/monitoring post Testicular Cancer treatment. Not only are they really expensive but often you have to schedule them very far in advance. In addition to exposing you to some radiation and the cost, you would need to produce a lot more machines and train a lot more people to use them if you wanted everyone to get scans.
That said, scans of all varieties should be more accessible to people. Maybe not to the point where people get them every year, but if a doctor suspects something it shouldn’t take weeks or even months and thousands of dollars to get the proper scan.
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