A Bay Area start-up is behind a testing procedure endorsed by social media influencers like Kim Kardashian that that is rapidly gaining popularity, despite warnings from leading medical experts of possible negative consequences.
Prenuvo offers a full-body MRI scan the company claims can detect more than 500 conditions including cancerous tumors at an early stage. There's a rapid expansion of its clinics across the state and country, but leading medical experts warn those who sign up for the scans could face negative outcomes. The whole-body MRI scan at a Prenuvo clinic now takes less than an hour. Dr. Sefi Chodakiewitz works as a radiologist for the company.
'There absolutely could be tremendous numbers of false positives, signals to patients who have nothing wrong with them, but where they go on a downstream path of many more tests and procedures and even treatment for cancer that wasn't going to be symptomatic. That's absolutely demonstrated,' said Smith-Bindman. But founder and CEO of Prenuvo Andrew Lacy sees these 'false positives' very differently.
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