Anecdotal evidence to confirm: I had two false alarms from an unrelated MRI scan, and beside wasting a lot of time on diagnosing them - it was also extremely stressful.
My father is a part of "full body PET scan every 3 years" program as part of post - cancer treatment, and it worked twice: early detected lung and prostate tumors, both removed.
> My father is a part of "full body PET scan every 3 years" program as part of post - cancer treatment,
These treatments are wonderful and it is great that they exist. But many people fail to understand the difference in terms of pretest probability, etc.
I can absolutely see the heavy psychological impact pending biopsy results may have. People are quick to discount these issues when you raise them as a concern, but only if they never went through this stress themselves
I have multiple scans a year. "Scanxiety" is real.