There is a moment that every patient dreads: the scan has been completed, the machine switches off, and then… nothing. Days turn to weeks. Phone calls go unanswered. The silence, as one patient told us, is filled with worry. At Hexarad, we call this Scanxiety, and it’s an unfortunate reality for hundreds of thousands of people moving through the NHS diagnostic pathway every year. And it is, in large part, a structural problem. One created by the current system, and which the

Dr Amy Davis is a consultant radiologist who specialises in oncology reporting. She completed an oncology fellowship at the Royal Marsden Hospital (RMH), where she gained expertise and actively participated in several research trials, including those looking at WBMRI. In addition to her clinical work, she is an experienced medical journalist with over 10 years' experience as an Associate Editor of The BMJ. She has also previously worked at BMJ Open as an Associate Clinical Ed