Study Finds Medical CT, PET Scans Pose Serious Radiation Risk
August 27, 2009
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The NEJM article refers to radiation doses that are “moderate, high, and very high”. Assigning that description to an arbitrary number (50 mSv for example) does not aid this important discussion, nor does it address the real issue. Appropriate studies provide great benefit and should continue without fear of the assumed increased cancer risk. Likewise, studies that provide no clinical information should not be performed even if they are “low dose”. Medical decisions always involve weighing the risks and benefits of a procedure or medication. You can visit the radiation dose calculator at http://www.xrayrisk.com to calculate cancer risk based on CT scans, x-rays, nuclear medicine and interventional procedures performed.
Doctors that own their own CT scanners order 5-TO-8 TIMES MORE CT scans than those that do not own their own scanners. Why? PURE PROFIT AND GREED. A bill has been trying to make it through Congress to close the loophole that allows this abuse, however the lobby of doctors who abuse the system, and the manufacturers who sell that scanners, is too strong. The bill/amendment (HR2962) has been squashed by those who will continue over-radiating patients for profit.
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