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Oh, how I feel.

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Itchy and bitchy.

Hello, this is Karen Nicol family nurse practitioner, and you are listening to Itchy, bitchy, and bitchy. Hello, this is Karen Nicol family nurse practitioner, and you are listening to Itchy and Bitchie,

a podcast that provides answers to your many unanswered health questions.

A year ago, I released an episode called Blood Test for Multiple Cancers.

Yep, it exists.

And it was about a test called Gallery that looks for over 50

different cancer biomarkers in your blood in an effort to catch a problem early. Now I am repeatedly

seeing ads on social media for whole body scans that are used as a screening tool, meaning the test is done

just to see what's going on in your body rather than doing a specific test to check for a specific

problem, like doing an abdominal ultrasound to check for gallstones in someone with right

upper quadrant pain. We are going to

rerun the August 24 episode about gallery testing, but first I'm going to tell you about these

whole body scans that are being advertised and review the pros and cons of doing this type of

testing. So first of all, what does it mean to have a whole body

scan? Well, whole body scans use MRIs, usually magnetic resonance imaging to examine your entire body.

These medical scans can identify signs of injury or disease.

The companies that offer this product state that they can be valuable for detecting health issues that aren't visible or show no signs yet.

Whole body scans provide detailed images of internal body structures.

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