The Claim

Whole-body MRI screening in asymptomatic individuals detects cancer in approximately 1.2% of cases, but nearly 23% of individuals with ONCO-RADS ≥4 findings do not undergo confirmatory testing, potentially leading to an underestimation of the true cancer prevalence.

Source: Applying ONCO-RADS to whole-body MRI cancer screening in a retrospective cohort of asymptomatic individuals

What the research says

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In plain English

When doctors scan healthy people’s whole bodies with MRI, they find cancer in about 1 out of every 80 people—but almost a quarter of those with suspicious findings never get follow-up tests, so we might be missing even more cancers than we think.

See the scientific wording

Whole-body MRI screening in asymptomatic individuals detects cancer in approximately 1.2% of cases, but nearly 23% of individuals with ONCO-RADS ≥4 findings do not undergo confirmatory testing, potentially underestimating true cancer prevalence.

What the research says

1 study

  1. Study: Applying ONCO-RADS to whole-body MRI cancer screening in a retrospective cohort of asymptomatic individuals

    This study checked healthy people with full-body MRI scans and found cancer in 1.2% of them — just like the claim says. It also found many people had scary-looking results but didn’t get more tests, which probably means some cancers were missed — supporting the claim’s worry.

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