The Claim
Whole-body MRI with short tau inversion recovery sequence has a sensitivity of 93.8% and specificity of 93.4% for detecting pediatric malignancy in children undergoing diagnostic imaging at an academic medical center between 2013 and 2018.
What the research says
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A special kind of full-body scan called MRI with a specific setting (STIR) can find cancer in kids with very high accuracy—correctly spotting it in almost all cases where it’s there and correctly saying it’s not there when it isn’t.
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Whole-body MRI with short tau inversion recovery sequence has a sensitivity of 93.8% and specificity of 93.4% for detecting pediatric malignancy in children undergoing diagnostic imaging at an academic medical center between 2013 and 2018, suggesting it can accurately identify the presence or absence of cancer in this population.
What the research says
1 studyStudy: Sensitivity and Specificity of Whole-body MRI for the Detection of Pediatric Malignancy
This study checked if a special kind of full-body MRI scan could find cancer in kids, and it found that it correctly spotted cancer 93.8% of the time and correctly said no cancer was there 93.4% of the time — just like the claim said.
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