[ RadSafe ] CT scans dangerous?

[Steven Dapra]

Oct. 29, 2007

	This article from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel of Oct. 14 was published 
in today's Albuquerque Journal.

	The link 
is: 
http://gr.acr.org/acr?action=viewNewsArticle&documentId=2c9e4f69159c076a01159e51df09009d. 
This is the website of the American College of Radiology.  (The article 
didn't seem to be available on the SFS-S website.)

	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."

	The ECRI's URL is <http://www.ecri.org/Pages/default.aspx>.  It was 
founded in 1968 as the Emergency Care Research Institute.  A summary of its 
history will be found here:  <http://www.ecri.org/About/Pages/History.aspx>.

	Any comments on the article about CT scans?

Steven Dapra
sjd at swcp.com