Joplin Independent:Medical scans seen as cause of cancer - 0 views
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Energy Net on 16 Nov 09" ... we know that doing 62 million scans every year for a population of 300 million is not just unnecessary and wasteful, but it's dangerous. It's producing tens of thousands of cancers."-- Dr. Atul Gawande, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, on NPR's Morning Edition, Sept. 3, 2009 Medical CT and PET scanners expose at least four million North Americans to high doses of radiation each year, a new study shows. Around 400,000 of them get very high doses, higher than the maximum annual doses allowed for nuclear reactor or nuclear weapon site workers, or anyone working with radioactive materials, according to an article in The New England Journal of Medicine (August 27, 2009), "Exposure to Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation from Medical Imaging Procedures."
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Energy Net on 16 Nov 09" ... we know that doing 62 million scans every year for a population of 300 million is not just unnecessary and wasteful, but it's dangerous. It's producing tens of thousands of cancers."-- Dr. Atul Gawande, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, on NPR's Morning Edition, Sept. 3, 2009 Medical CT and PET scanners expose at least four million North Americans to high doses of radiation each year, a new study shows. Around 400,000 of them get very high doses, higher than the maximum annual doses allowed for nuclear reactor or nuclear weapon site workers, or anyone working with radioactive materials, according to an article in The New England Journal of Medicine (August 27, 2009), "Exposure to Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation from Medical Imaging Procedures."