MRI For Early Cancer Detection

Name: MRI For Early Cancer Detection
Uploaded: 2025-03-11T16:00:32+00:00
Duration: 44 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok explains that standard screening tests like PSA, mammograms, and colonoscopies catch only about 14% of cancers. The other 86% are found…

11 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok explains that standard screening tests like PSA, mammograms, and colonoscopies catch only about 14% of cancers. The other 86% are found after symptoms appear, when they're often harder to treat. He argues whole-body MRI could catch more cancers early, when they're still manageable.

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PSA (prostate), mammogram, colonoscopy, low-dose lung CT, Pap smear

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About 14%

About 86%

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The full body MRI you talked about for picking up cancer. We briefly touched on screening for cardiovascular disease, PSA for prostate mammogram, colonoscopy, low dose lung ct, and Pap smears. Those are five tests right now that are approved to screen for cancer. Those tests only pick up 14% of cancers. What it's telling you is that 86% of cancers, you wait until symptoms develop, until that seizure that you have belly pain that people come into the emergency department for. You're making that diagnosis at an advanced stage when symptoms have already developed. And we know time and time again the earlier that something is detected, the easier it is to treat. We want to optimize health span, which is the amount of healthy years that people live.