Lacy: Prenuvo scans detect chronic disease 10 to 20 years before symptoms
Andrew Lacy · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · Dec 7, 2023 · at 27:40
Prenuvo co-founder and CEO Andrew Lacy explains the preventative diagnostic power of full-body MRI scanning during an interview with Guy Raz.
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“I think one of the really fascinating things that we have discovered as we started to image more and more patients is we can see oftentimes at very early stages of chronic disease, 1020 years before you might ever feel symptoms.”
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