Optimal MRI Schedule 🗓️

Name: Optimal MRI Schedule 🗓️
Uploaded: 2024-02-19T13:00:24+00:00
Duration: 26 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok recommends MRI screening starting at 45, then every five years if low risk, every two years after 50, and yearly after 60. Start earlier…

19 Feb 2024 · 0 min

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Dr. Charles Mok recommends MRI screening starting at 45, then every five years if low risk, every two years after 50, and yearly after 60. Start earlier if you have family history of pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer, or sarcoma. MRI has no ionizing radiation and no known adverse effects beyond cost.

So my recommendation is that you start this around 45, and then if it's clear and you have low risk, you do it again in five years. Once you get over 50, you might do it every two years and have over 60 about every year. If you have a family history of cancer, certain cancer like pancreatic or ovarian or sarcomas, I might just start screening a little sooner. And unlike a CAT scan, there's no ionizing radiation with mri. In fact, in other words, there are no known adverse events to doing an MRI every year other than the course cost.