Full-Body MRI: When to Consider

Let's talk about what age should you consider doing it based on average risk versus high risk, and how often should you do it? I think that boils down to the importance of that initial 30 to 60 minute conversation that I have with every single one of my patients. Because if somebody comes in and says I'm healthy, zero family history, my lab work looks great, I feel phenomenal, I work out five days a week, I eat healthy, don't smoke, etc. You're looking at very low risk individual. What I would encourage is let's get a baseline and then let's determine after we get that baseline where we're at currently. For whole body mri, our recommendation is yearly, but we're collecting data points to say okay, for low risk, yearly is maybe too much. Maybe it should be every two years. For high risk, yearly seems to be suffice. It's really too early to tell.