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Friend of mine recently got diagnosed with cancer. Has over a dozen golf-ball sized tumors in his brain, bones, lungs, liver, etc. After 6 months of nagging p
by choppaface 7y ago
Friend of mine recently got diagnosed with cancer. Has over a dozen golf-ball sized tumors in his brain, bones, lungs, liver, etc. After 6 months of nagging pain and pneumonia they finally did a small MRI and saw something odd. Then they did a full-body MRI and it was very very obvious.
Taking an image can help catch things? No shit Sherlock! I don't care if doctors can't agree imaging diagnoses sometimes. Time to get better at doing that. Computers can help. Yes there's a helium shortage, but since when does healthcare get short-changed?
Aside: there's at least one company looking to make whole-body imaging more available: https://q.bio/ https://q.bio/ The founder is a little crazy, but a good kind of crazy.