Routine Cancer Screening

Name: Routine Cancer Screening
Uploaded: 2025-01-23T13:00:31+00:00
Duration: 33 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Insurance covers routine cancer screenings like colonoscopy and mammograms, but they catch only about one in four cancers. Full-body MRI scans offer…

23 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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Insurance covers routine cancer screenings like colonoscopy and mammograms, but they catch only about one in four cancers. Full-body MRI scans offer broader detection at specialized clinics like Bionic MRI in Southfield or Pernobo.

Questions this video answers

The 2010 Affordable Care Act (as stated by the speaker).

About one out of four cancers (25%), as stated by the speaker.

Bionic MRI in Southfield (Detroit area).

Pernobo; the speaker says Pernobo is not in Michigan and operates only in certain states.

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Picking up screening for cancer. Now, there's a handful of screening tests that are covered by insurance. In the 2010 Affordable Health Care act, we mandated screening tests such as colonoscopy, mammograms. But this only picks up or has a potential to pick up about one out of four cancers. The other three out of four would be missed with routine screening. And we could do something called a full body mri. You can't just go to a regular hospital and get MRI your full body. They won't do it. They don't have the mechanism. You have to go to a clinic that does full body mri. Here in Detroit area, we use a bionic mri. They're in Southfield. There's a national company called Pernobo that does this as well. They're not here in Michigan. They can only go in certain states.