Sarah Blackburn's elective full-body MRI scan from Prenuvo revealed a dangerous splenic artery aneurysm leading to her spleen's surgical removal. She undertook this $2,499 procedure due to her family's cancer history. Though the scan was beneficial for her, medical experts emphasize the potential drawbacks, including false positives and the risk of overdiagnosis of incidental findings. This concern echoes wider discussions within the medical community regarding the effectiveness of such screenings, especially as their popularity rises, sparked partly by celebrities promoting them.
"They all came to the same spot where they were like, yeah, it's gotta go," Blackburn recounted in one of her videos.
"I think the general view of the medical establishment is that, you know, these things don't have a lot of evidence and we should be very cautious before we advise people to get something like this," physician and New Yorker writer Dhruv Khullar told the CBC last year.
According to Khullar, a full-body scan could be a "recipe for having a tremendous number of false positives and potentially overdiagnosis."
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