We Can Detect Cancer Years Earlier—So Why Aren’t We?

How should we really think about imaging today? These miraculous devices we've built are important to understand because they're going to change our lives. Maybe we don't need to wait for a doctor to have already found a problem. I kind of want to talk about this whole idea of false positives, which is something that people will push back on. I think everybody should have a baseline.

You talked about this moment that we're in, which is comparable to the invention of the telescope. Not just An incremental change, but more of a quantum change. Wait a second, if we can see this stuff, maybe we don't need to wait for a doctor to have already found a problem. And I think that's this cusp that we're on where medical imaging is really changing.

My guest today began his career at Harvard and MIT, spent years as chief of innovation in radiology at NYU, and has developed imaging technologies used to guide the care of billions of people worldwide. He's now chief medical scientist at Function Health. This is Dr. Daniel K. Sodickson.

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