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Mike Kolber

Professor of Family Medicine at University of Alberta; host of "Best Science Medicine Podcast"; practices in Peace River, Alberta

Apr 27, 2026

4:31
Yeah.
4:31
So there were two systematic reviews, and they were both, uh, they were done d- in different times because the machines evolved.
4:38
So I'll give you the fir- the first one was 12 studies, about 6,000 adults, and this was between 2005 and 2020.
4:47
Again, middle-aged female...
4:49
Sorry, middle-aged males and females, asymptomatic, 45 to kind of 65, the mean age of these people.
4:57
When they put them all through a whole body MRI, they found about 1% had confirmed cancers, and that's biopsy proven down the road.
5:03
Most commonly, these were renal, prostate, and lung.

12 MINS LATER

17:06
it, it's not that black, it's not that black and white.

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