Wealthy People Are Getting Full-Body Scans. Early Detection or Unnecessary?

Re:Wealthy People Are Getting Full-Body Scans. Early Detecti... by madacol on Saturday August 26, 2023 @05:29AM (#37271063)

You should also take into account patients that are already worried, and how much peace it brings when the scan results clean

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But I am really worry with a deeper issue.

A full-body MRI scan provides information, and supposedly consequence-free (at least physically)

According to your arguments, the medical system doesn't currently know what to do with it to provide an overall benefit (Allow me to be very skeptical, but let's roll with it)

So your attitude is to not collect the information in the first place. I assume you are thinking that because there are no immediate benefits and lots of cost

But I'm sure there are, at least, future benefits. Why not instead start learning from this new source of information to do good in the future, or just collect it for future references / comparisons with future scans?

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Re:Wealthy People Are Getting Full-Body Scans. Early Detecti... by Panzer04 on Saturday August 26, 2023 @08:38AM (#37272305)

The root of the issue seems to be that general scans are simply not that informative unless problems are very obvious or couched with other symptoms. If they can't tell the difference between a benign lump and a tumor without additional information then they don't actually serve a useful purpose. Garbage data is useless, after all.

Using them in a targeted manner because the patient is reporting symptoms or somesuch appears to be a different use case. The signal to noise ratio of an untargeted scan is otherwise too high to be of much value determining treatment.

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