Protocol
Full-body MRI screening
Whole-body MRI · Whole-body screening MRI · Full body scan · Full body MRI + CT chest
The evidence base does not support the healthspan claims made for whole-body MRI as a screen for asymptomatic, average-risk adults. There is no randomised trial showing that whole-body MRI screening of unselected asymptomatic adults reduces all-cause or cancer-specific mortality. Where MRI screening does have real support, it is in defined high-risk groups (for example hereditary cancer predisposition surveillance), which is a different population and a different indication from the consumer longevity product. The documented harms are substantial and well characterised: a high rate of incidental findings, most of which are benign, driving downstream imaging, biopsy, and invasive workup, plus overdiagnosis and anxiety. Everlab's own product page concedes this, stating that for average-risk individuals the research is ongoing and that the role of whole-body MRI as a broader screening tool in asymptomatic average-risk adults "remains less clearly established", and that the scan is not a reliable screen for breast, colon, or prostate cancer, with ovaries difficult to assess. Note: this profile was compiled without live literature search (the session's web search budget was exhausted), so the evidence characterisation above rests on the vendor page retrieved plus the discovery brief, not on independently retrieved trial or guideline sources. Treat the evidence grading as directionally reliable but not source-complete.
At a glance
- Evidence
- Commercial
- Singapore (HSA)
- No HSA position on file
- Australia (TGA)
- No TGA position on file
- Offered at
- 1 clinic
Singapore
Health Sciences Authority
- HSA status
- No position on file
- In our SG set
- Tracked in Singapore
- SG clinics
- None on file
Australia
Therapeutic Goods Administration
- TGA status
- No position on file
- In our AU set
- Tracked in Australia
- AU clinics
- 1
Evidence is not approvalAn evidence grade describes how strong the science is. A regulatory status describes whether a body has approved the intervention for an indication. They are different questions, answered separately above.
What it is
Plain-language explainer
A non-contrast magnetic resonance imaging protocol that images most of the body, typically brain to pelvis, in a single sitting, sometimes bundled with a low-dose CT chest. It is sold to asymptomatic adults as a way to detect cancers, aneurysms, and other structural disease before symptoms appear. The scan is read by a radiologist and the findings are then interpreted for the client by a physician or GP.
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Sources
What this profile is built on
- Full Body MRI + CT Chest Scan · Everlab
- DA MedSuites (Doctor Anywhere) preventive screening and diagnostic imaging · Doctor Anywhere
- NOVI Health assessments and add-on scans · NOVI Health
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