CT Scans may cause cancer?

Lauren Ellerman

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Another study - another outcome... Study warns that 2% of all cancer cases, may actually be caused by radiation from CT scans.

The study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, as reported on by most major news outlets, encourages radiologists to consider whether all the extra testing is needed.

As CBS news reported, "We are very concerned about the built-up public health risk over a long period of time," said Eric J. Hall, who wrote the report with fellow Columbia University medical physicist David J. Brenner.

Well - I too am concerned. Please, if you are sent to have excessive number of such tests performed, express some concern to your physician before it is too late.

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