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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There isn’t a net benefit to doing it. They may find the occasional cancer earlier than otherwise but they will also find a lot of abnormalities that will turn out not to be cancer or anything else important. Procedures to determine that have risk to patients and have a cost. It’s also both quite costly in itself and not really possible. A full body scan takes a long time so to give everyone one each year will take far more very expensive machines and expensive radiologists, nurses and technicians than it’s possible to obtain.
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