Why Early Screening for Cancer is Important 🤨❗

Name: Why Early Screening for Cancer is Important 🤨❗
Uploaded: 2024-02-15T21:00:07+00:00
Duration: 37 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok shares his own MRI results and explains why early cancer screening matters. Conventional methods like mammograms and colonoscopies catch…

15 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok shares his own MRI results and explains why early cancer screening matters. Conventional methods like mammograms and colonoscopies catch only about one in four cancers before they become serious. Full-body MRI costs under $3,000 and is more sensitive, though not perfect.

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$5,000

Less than $3,000

About one out of four cancers (≈25%)

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You know, I've got my MRI done at your center so some of my employees and thankfully there's no cancers. And interestingly I did a few years ago in San Diego, it cost me 5,000. I got some other stuff with that and I little cyst on my liver, some little anomalies that are unchanged. Sometimes I hear people say I don't want to know. Well, if you have cancer, you're going to find out. You might find out the hard way. So it is scary thinking about these things. But we do things like mammograms, colonoscopies, Pap smears, psa, blood tests. We do things that are looking for stuff before it's serious. Again, all those screening tests only pick up about one out of four cancers before they're clinically significant. MRI does not get it to 100%, gets much closer. But the next step is full body MRI. Again, less than $3,000. And I I did it.