I WAS thinking about having one of these!
Full-body CT scans pose high cancer risk
AFP Wednesday, September 1, 2004
CHICAGO Full-body computed tomography, or CT, scans increase a person's risk of cancer, according to a study released Tuesday in the journal Radiology that raises questions about the growing popularity of these screenings among healthy people.
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Just one of these scans imparts a dose of radiation comparable to that received by some Japanese atomic-bomb survivors, while repeated annual screenings carry a significantly elevated lifetime cancer risk, the study found. The researchers said that among otherwise healthy 45-year-olds, one full-body screening would typically cause a fatal form of cancer in 1 of every 1,200 people.
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< < Back to Start of Article CHICAGO Full-body computed tomography, or CT, scans increase a person's risk of cancer, according to a study released Tuesday in the journal Radiology that raises questions about the growing popularity of these screenings among healthy people.
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Just one of these scans imparts a dose of radiation comparable to that received by some Japanese atomic-bomb survivors, while repeated annual screenings carry a significantly elevated lifetime cancer risk, the study found. The researchers said that among otherwise healthy 45-year-olds, one full-body screening would typically cause a fatal form of cancer in 1 of every 1,200 people. CHICAGO Full-body computed tomography, or CT, scans increase a person's risk of cancer, according to a study released Tuesday in the journal Radiology that raises questions about the growing popularity of these screenings among healthy people.
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Just one of these scans imparts a dose of radiation comparable to that received by some Japanese atomic-bomb survivors, while repeated annual screenings carry a significantly elevated lifetime cancer risk, the study found. The researchers said that among otherwise healthy 45-year-olds, one full-body screening would typically cause a fatal form of cancer in 1 of every 1,200 people. CHICAGO Full-body computed tomography, or CT, scans increase a person's risk of cancer, according to a study released Tuesday in the journal Radiology that raises questions about the growing popularity of these screenings among healthy people.
.
Just one of these scans imparts a dose of radiation comparable to that received by some Japanese atomic-bomb survivors, while repeated annual screenings carry a significantly elevated lifetime cancer risk, the study found. The researchers said that among otherwise healthy 45-year-olds, one full-body screening would typically cause a fatal form of cancer in 1 of every 1,200 people. |
