We’ve always heard that cancer generally strikes later in life – nearly 60% of cancer patients in the United States are 65 or older.1 So, if you’re younger than 50, being diagnosed with cancer is not something you really have to worry about, right? Not true, according to a recent study which showed that cancer diagnosis rates are actually going up in people younger than 50, the typical cut-off for when cancer is considered “early-onset.”

Your healthcare provider has requested that you have an MRI with contrast. The addition of contrast to your MRI exam is only ordered when necessary, but the use of contrast provides highly detailed images of specific areas within your body, improving diagnostic accuracy and providing crucial, life-saving medical information.

Let’s face it, the human body can be weird. While on the one hand, it’s an amazing, complicated collection of nerves, blood vessels, organs and bones that all communicate and work together in intricate ways, there are still many anatomical functions that are just plain strange.

That being said, let’s take a look at some of these weird bodily quirks that all of our bodies do, and find out why they happen.