CT increase cancer risk?

Started by BMW19
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http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/22/2277

What do all the Oncs to be/current oncologists/radiologists think of these findings by the NEJM. They are saying that CTs can increase the overall cancer risk in the population to as much as 2%! That is crazy hard to believe. Apparently their research was done by comparing radiation levels to that of people on the outskirts during the nuclear bomb attacks.

I know people that have had 2 or 3 CT scans just for sinuses!

Any thoughts on this? At the trauma center I was just at they CT everyone! Even if u just got a bump on the head...

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