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1. National Patient Advocate Foundation - A National Network For Healthcare Reform, est.1996
www.npaf.org/news/latest/conce - [Cached]Published on: 7/13/2008 Last Visited: 7/13/2008
David J. Brenner, a professor of radiation oncology at Columbia University, said that "radiation doses from CT have been pretty clearly demonstrated to increase cancer risk."
While experts do not want to alarm patients, they are worried about overuse, especially in children since the average CT chest scan, exposes patients to more than 150 times the radiation compared to a typical chest X-ray.Several researchers including Brenner and Fred A. Mettler Jr., a radiation health expert at the University of New Mexico, have recently co-authored a series of reports warning about the potential risks of CT scans. -
2. National Patient Advocate Foundation - A National Network For Healthcare Reform, est.1996
www.npaf.org/news/latest/conce - [Cached]Published on: 7/13/2008 Last Visited: 7/13/2008
David J. Brenner, a professor of radiation oncology at Columbia University, said that "radiation doses from CT have been pretty clearly demonstrated to increase cancer risk."
While experts do not want to alarm patients, they are worried about overuse, especially in children since the average CT chest scan, exposes patients to more than 150 times the radiation compared to a typical chest X-ray.Several researchers including Brenner and Fred A. Mettler Jr., a radiation health expert at the University of New Mexico, have recently co-authored a series of reports warning about the potential risks of CT scans. -
3. www.hsforum.com
www.hsforum.com/forum/thread?t - [Cached]Published on: 6/29/2008 Last Visited: 6/29/2008
Further, each scan creates an additional lifetime risk of cancer that is somewhere between 1 in 200 and 1 in 5,000, said Dr. David J. Brenner, director of the Center for Radiological Research at Columbia University.
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Based on a reporter's notes about the duration of the scan and the power output reported by the scanner, Dr. Brenner of the Center for Radiological Research estimated that Mr. Franks had received 21 millisieverts of radiation =97 even more than a typical test, equal to about 1,050 conventio nal
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Further, each scan creates an additional lifetime risk of cancer that is somewhere between 1 in 200 and 1 in 5,000, said Dr. David J. Brenner, director of the Center for Radiological Research at Columbia University.
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Based on a reporter's notes about the duration of the scan and the power output reported by the scanner, Dr. Brenner of the Center for Radiological Research estimated that Mr. Franks had received 21 millisieverts of radiation =E2=80=94 even more than a typical test, equal to about 1,050 con ventional
