[ RadSafe ] CT scans dangerous?

[John Jacobus]

Actually, the ACR was in the news earlier this year. 
I doubt that any radiologist has not heard about it.

--- Chris Alston <ALSTONCJ at gunet.georgetown.edu>
wrote:

> 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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John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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