I keep seeing people promoting elective full-body MRI scans on social media, and have been thinking of getting one for some peace of mind. I am average risk and have no symptoms. Is it a good idea?<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll be honest. I\u2019ve been tempted by whole-body MRIs, too. As an oncology fellow, I\u2019m constantly reminded of rising cancer rates, particularly in people under 50<\/a>, like me. And on social media, it seems like one influencer or celebrity after another is signing up for a scan that promises to look for conditions ranging from heart disease<\/a> to osteoarthritis to cancer. A TikTok video about a trip to the MRI scanner has begun to seem as routine as makeup tutorials and Target hauls. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I keep seeing people promoting elective full-body MRI scans on social media, and have been thinking of getting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-847563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}