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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
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Apr 27, 2026
Episode 621: Whole-Body MRI for Cancer Screening: Many findings, little benefit
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4:31Mike KolberGUEST
So there were two systematic reviews, and they were both, uh, they were done d- in different times because the machines evolved.
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4:38Mike KolberGUEST
So I'll give you the fir- the first one was 12 studies, about 6,000 adults, and this was between 2005 and 2020.
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4:49Mike KolberGUEST
Sorry, middle-aged males and females, asymptomatic, 45 to kind of 65, the mean age of these people.
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4:57Mike KolberGUEST
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.
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