A program called the Hercules Project is giving free whole-body MRI scans to people who can’t usually afford them, to see if cancer is found more often in poorer communities.

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The Hercules study: A prospective real-world evaluation of screening whole-body MRI (sWB-MRI) for multi-cancer detection and general preventive healthcare.

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The study is about a program that gives low-income people cheaper or free full-body MRI scans to find cancer early, which is exactly what the claim says.

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The Hercules study: A prospective real-world evaluation of screening whole-body MRI (sWB-MRI) for multi-cancer detection and general preventive healthcare.

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DOI: 10.1200/jco.2025.43.16_suppl.tps10626

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Doctors are testing a full-body scan that can find many types of cancer at once, and they’re using it on both people who pay for it themselves and those who get it for free, to see if rich and poor people are being detected differently.

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