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To: Whitebeard who wrote (341040)	1/2/2010 2:52:29 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793956

I'm looking at one of the latest publications from the American College of Physicians. According to them, if radiation received from a regular Chest Xray is "1", then Calcium score study is 20-40, a diagnostic Coronary angiography is 200-500, and a coronary CT angiogram is 700-2100. Those are significant numbers. I just found a recent article on this subject, posted here on SI: data from several databases and estimated that 29,000 future cancers could be related to CT scans received in 2007 Message 26178053