Dr. Charles Mok explains how Bionic MRI's full-body scans detect tumors the size of a peanut, catching cancers that standard screening misses. Current insurance-covered screening finds only 1 in 4 cancers before they become clinically significant.
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So we think about longevity. And a lot of things, people are doing a lot of things, try to live a little bit longer, but one of them is not to die of anything that is totally preventable. And I think about cardiovascular disease, which we can pick up a decade in advance. Neurocognitive decline, like Alzheimer's, you pick up 20 years in advance. And even cancers, we want to pick those in the earliest stages. And right now, if you do your regular insurance covered cancer screening, you're going to pick up about one out of four cancers before they're clinically significant. And Ryan is with bionic mri, and they're doing full body mri, which is different than the MRI you get in the hospital, because it's actually taking larger cuts. So it can be done in a reasonable time frame to pick up tumors about the size of a peanut, which is a point where they can be removed.