Should You Get a Full Body Scan?

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Kim Kardashian is the latest celeb to promote private full body MRI screening scans. She and the company claim they are life-saving. The scans themselves involve no radiation and you can learn information about your body. Surely that can't be bad, can it?

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References

Incidentalomas and general reading:

Incidental Findings and Low-Value Care | AJR https://www.ajronline.org/doi/full/10...
The Economic Burden of Incidentally Detected Findings - PMC https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
The Economic Burden of Incidentally Detected Findings - PMC https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Cascades of care:

The Important but Rarely Studied Cascade of Care | Health Policy | JAMA Network Open https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama...
Curbing Cascades of Care: What They Are and How to Stop Them | AAFP https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/...
Why Do Physicians Pursue Cascades of Care After Incidental Findings? A National Survey - PMC https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
When routine medical tests trigger a cascade of unnecessary care : Shots - Health News : NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/health-s...


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