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is a body scan good to do mri total package for a 25 year old male?

how much do you think it would cost for a person with no insurance. what can they detect whats the benefit. anyone know any information ????????????

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1. In India it costs INR. 15,000 - 20,000, should be costlier in your Country ( INR 41 = 1 US$ ). The Doctor can see all internal organs, on their monitor screen, and can detect any abnormality without operating. Print outs will be taken for further study.
2. if you had a good reason to do/need an mri, its fair enough. but if you are healthy, its costly and not useful if you are young and asymptomatic. it looks at all your internal organs and could potentially detect many different types of abnormality. it is only best to have these at the suggestion of a physician as it might show up incidental abnormalities that may otherwise have gone unnoticed. if you are worried about anything, see and talk to your doctor first
3. No, not unless you have some symptoms, a potential diagnosis, or a family history of something significant that would require an MRI. Find a good doctor to take care of you and if he/she thinks you need an MRI, then get one. What does it cost? If you search the web, you'll find the price advertised. There are full body CT scans (note: not MRI) that are around $500. CT scans expose you to some low levels of radiation, while MRI machines use magnetic fields to make their images. MRI tends to be more expensive than CT. An MRI (or a CT) can detect a lot of things. That's really the problem. If you do a full body scan (without any symptoms), then you may be tempted to think that any finding is bound to be serious. Sometimes a slight blemish on a scan is just a poor image and less frequently, it is a lesion or a tumor.