Monday, March 19, 2007

Researchers Studying Usefulness of Full Body Scans

By Helen Chickering / NBC News

Your cholesterol checks out, your blood pressure is fine and your doctor sends you away with a clean bill of health. But, for some people that's not enough. They want a head-to-toe checkup.

Whole body scanning in healthy people has been dubbed a high-tech, and sometimes risky, waste of money by the medical community. But, advances in technology may soon change that perspective.

Today, state-of-the-art imaging technology is revolutionizing the diagnosis and treatments in a number of illnesses, everything from cancer to heart disease.

Hi-tech imaging tools that give a head-to-toe view inside the body have revolutioned the diagnosis of diseases like cancer, triggering the obvious question.

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