Friday, December 18, 2009

CT scans and cancer

This week researchers reported misuse of CT scans will be the cause of possibly 15,000 deaths a year.

The two studies in the Archives of Internal Medicine quantify for the first time the extent of the damage of CT scans
Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco concluded that different machines performing the same procedure can have a 13-fold difference in radiation dose
sources on CT SCANS

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