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mgraczyk 2 hours ago

And yes getting frequent full body MRIs is still overwhelming the right thing for the patient.

mmaunder 20 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

This guy has never heard the term 'scanxiety'. Go ask what it means on a cancer forum. The real OG's are the VHL folks. Bet we have a few here on this thread. Respect.

mgraczyk 17 minutes ago | parent [-]

I have, it's the fault of how medicine is practiced to reduce cost. It's completely avoidable, you can just not tell people their scan results if they have no symptoms and the detection is less than 95% likely to be cancer. This is strictly better than the status quo because the only difference is some people who almost certainly have cancer learn that they have cancer and nothing else changes

tptacek 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No? The point of the article, and of the preceding comments, echoing a pretty common tenet of evidence-based medicine, is that frequent full-body MRIs are a bad idea for the patient.

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