How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?

Re:How often do full-body MRIs find cancer? by lostlogin on Sunday February 15, 2026 @11:47PM (#47030998)

Radiation doesn’t label the cancers it causes.

Other than comparing population groups, what method do we have?

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Re:How often do full-body MRIs find cancer? by ErroneousBosh on Monday February 16, 2026 @07:14AM (#47034086)

Well, you could work backwards and look at your assumptions.

Why is "We think this person has cancer so we gave them a CT scan and look! Now they've got cancer! It must be because of the CT scan!" the conclusion to jump to?

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Re:How often do full-body MRIs find cancer? by azan_ on Monday February 16, 2026 @09:24AM (#47035345)

Please just read this article - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar... It's funny that you instantly assumed that authors are stupid and did not think about this obvious pitfall. It's extra funny that you also accuse them of jumping to conclusion without actually reading the article.

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Re:How often do full-body MRIs find cancer? by ErroneousBosh on Monday February 16, 2026 @02:58PM (#47039520)

I've read it. It's so comically unscientific.

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Re:How often do full-body MRIs find cancer? by azan_ on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @04:28PM (#47066681)

What's unscientific in that?

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