Vista Health: "Full Body MRI Scan"

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See here for other articles on dodgy “MRI Cancer Scans”

Vista Health, another favourite. We’ve already covered the fact there is no such thing as a “full body cancer screen”, and how these types of screening-not-screenings can cause harm.

Here, they’re telling you that “Early detection of Cancer saves lives”. True, but we do that through recognised screening programmes and not through “case finding”.1

Advert stating 'early detection of cancer saves lives', asking you to fork out £1,295 for the privilege

Vista Health Full Body MRI Scan advert, published on Facebook (source; original)

Needless to say, the above has been reported to the ASA.

  1. McCartney M, Fell G, Finnikin S, Hunt H, McHugh M, Gray M. Why ‘case finding’ is bad science. J R Soc Med. 2020 Feb;113(2):54–8. ↩︎