As exciting as full-body MRIs seem, many in medicine are skeptical. But there are useful cases.

Calvin Sun was a healthy 37-year-old when a full-body MRI scan showed a cyst in his kidney. Sun saw a urologist who was cautiously optimistic that it wasn’t cancerous and offered him a surgery ...

Sarah Blackburn's decision to get a full-body MRI revealed a life-threatening aneurysm, leading to a life-altering surgery Ashley Vega is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Would you pay nearly $2,000 for a full-body MRI? The internet is buzzing about this latest health trend, which claims to help detect early signs of disease including cancer, heart issues and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Full-body MRIs promise to help detect cancer and other issues early. But they can also be expensive and unneeded medical tests.

Credit - Photo-Illustration by Chloe Dowling for TIME (Source Images: Lu ShaoJi—Getty Images, cscredon/Getty Images via Canva.com) Calvin Sun was a healthy 37-year-old when a full-body MRI scan showed ...