why can’t we get a yearly full body MRI to scan for cancers?

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I’ve seen so many horror stories where someone gets sick or is in pain, thinking they know what’s causing it only to find out they have late stage cancer. I don’t understand…..wouldn’t insurance companies want to offer this like they would a free yearly physical as it would be cheaper for them than paying out cancer treatments? Wouldn’t doctors want to push they’re patients to have this service done?

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The US has a grand total of 32-ish MRIs per million people. Most of those are in highly developed cities, and. that’s on the higher end; most countries have fewer than that. We literally don’t have enough machines on earth to even attempt that.

Plus, the false positives would be absolutely insane; enough that doing this would waste a significant amount of medical resources on making people think they’re gonna die (and possibly administering treatments that may cause the problems they’re trying to solve.)

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