Lacy: Whole-body MRI screening will inevitably achieve widespread medical adoption
Andrew Lacy · Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo · Dec 7, 2023 · at 20:10
Andrew Lacy, co-founder and CEO of Prenuvo, responds to Guy Raz about pushback and skepticism from medical associations regarding elective whole-body MRI screening.
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“And I think these statements that were made actually have also been made about pap smear between when it was invented and when it was adopted, mammograms. So this is a very, very natural Point in the journey from a potentially breakthrough screening technology to the point at which it inevitably is adopted, and I hope it won't take 30 years.”
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