[ RadSafe ] CT scans dangerous?

[Chris Alston]

Steven

Instead of the article, it might be more informative to review the ACR's recent "White Paper on Radiation Dose in Medicine", which is available on its website.  Frankly, I'm surprised that it took this long for the news media to start playing this up, since some of it can be read easily in a very alarmist way.

But the White Paper is a crucially important statement for, e.g., anyone doing medical health physics, especially in hospital, or who's prescribing radiologic studies, or setting guidelines for the latter.  It really should be very widely disseminated in the medical community.  For sure, I'm giving copies to physicians whom I know.

Cheers
cja

>>> Steven Dapra <sjd at swcp.com> 10/29/07 08:41PM >>> 
This is the website of the American College of Radiology.
According to the article, the ECRI Institute "an independent research 
group, estimates that CT scans cause 6,000 cases of cancer per year, half 
of them fatal, making them more of a risk than wrong-site surgeries."


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