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Re:One whole-body MRI could replace multiple cancer scans by Aeolun on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @12:53AM (#19967636)
6B per year to figure out which cancers are malignant with one scan seems like a fairly decent price.
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Re:One whole-body MRI could replace multiple cancer scans by mattkrause on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @10:22AM (#19970387)
For comparison, the entire NSF budget for next year is around $7B. That would just about cover the imaging component of building a speculative and ethically-questionable data set, assuming someone else pays for the biopsies, analysis, and staff.

(The NIH does have more money, but also funds trials, vaccines, and other stuff that we probably don't want to cancel for a century).

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Re:One whole-body MRI could replace multiple cancer scans by Aeolun on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @07:43PM (#19986813)
Why would this be ethically questionable? It is not as if you are scanning people against their will.
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