Using a full-body MRI scan on people who feel fine can sometimes find hidden health problems they didn’t know they had—and some of those problems might need a doctor’s attention.

Using a full-body MRI scan on people who feel fine can find hidden health problems that doctors might need to treat—before those people start feeling sick.

When healthy people without symptoms get a full-body MRI scan, doctors often find weird little things that aren’t actually harmful—but those findings can lead to more tests and stress that might not be needed.

When healthy people without symptoms get a full-body MRI scan, about 1 in 3 people end up with some unexpected finding on the scan — and almost 6 out of 10 of those surprises don’t clearly mean anything medically important.

When doctors scan healthy people’s whole bodies with MRI and find unexpected issues, most of those findings turn out to be important enough to check further—only about 1 in 10 are harmless.

When people who feel fine get a full-body MRI scan, they often find weird little things that aren’t cancer—but those weird finds happen more often than actual cancers are discovered.