Answering the question in the title...
> One study in 2020 found that 95% of asymptomatic patients had some type of "abnormal" finding, but just 1.8% of these findings were indeed cancer.
So a bit less than 1.8% of the time in this study
> Prenuvo's recent Polaris Study followed 1,011 patients for at least one year following a whole-body MRI scan. Of these patients, 41 had biopsies. More than half of the 41 were diagnosed with cancer.
That's 2.0%
Note that this doesn't mean that 1.7~2.0% of people have cancer without knowing it. It could be more:
> A negative scan doesn’t mean you’re disease-free. Some cancers and conditions simply aren’t visible yet or aren’t reliably detected on a one-time full-body MRI."
But also perhaps less, in a way:
> "You're finding something that never would have caused you any problem in your life, and in cancer, we call that overdiagnosis," Vickers says.
> One study in 2020 found that 95% of asymptomatic patients had some type of "abnormal" finding, but just 1.8% of these findings were indeed cancer.
So a bit less than 1.8% of the time in this study
> Prenuvo's recent Polaris Study followed 1,011 patients for at least one year following a whole-body MRI scan. Of these patients, 41 had biopsies. More than half of the 41 were diagnosed with cancer.
That's 2.0%
Note that this doesn't mean that 1.7~2.0% of people have cancer without knowing it. It could be more:
> A negative scan doesn’t mean you’re disease-free. Some cancers and conditions simply aren’t visible yet or aren’t reliably detected on a one-time full-body MRI."
But also perhaps less, in a way:
> "You're finding something that never would have caused you any problem in your life, and in cancer, we call that overdiagnosis," Vickers says.