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Daniel Durand

Daniel Durand

Argentine poet

Oct 1, 2026

49:36
half a percent, right? Is something like that half a percent of the results? About
49:41
half a percent.
49:42
Yeah.
49:42
So about 0.4 percent of people who get the initial screening mammogram wind up having cancer.
49:47
But you're going to biopsy, you know, maybe like 2 percent of them.
49:53
Like you're going to biopsy anywhere from three to five, depending on the center.
49:57
and the data source.

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63:51
What would help make it better? Is it Increased frequency, is it better interpretation, or is it technology itself that the actual scan would be able to see more and sort of do more? Where do you think of the kind of bottlenecks today that you want to see change?
18:41
What's so uniquely distinct about MRI that positions it so well for preventative screening? So two-part, tell us a little bit about whole body MRI, what it captures, and then why that over some of the other imaging methods.
18:55
Well, whole body MRI, and I'll get into the details in a moment, is the best modality for looking at soft tissues.
19:03
It is essentially looking at the chemical compositions of the tissues, and it does this without any radiation.
19:09
When you lie down an MRI scanner, you're lying down within a very homogenous and very powerful magnetic field.
19:15
And then we're using photons, and so technically radiation, but not ionizing radiation, so not cancer-causing radiation.
19:22
So the same types of wavelengths more or less that you might use with radio frequency waves or cell phone frequencies, very similar wavelengths.
19:31
And these are used to excite some of the chemicals within the body, and then the chemicals then relax back with magnetic fields.

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59:03
[chuckles]

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