[ RadSafe ] CT scans dangerous?

[Steven Dapra]

Oct. 31

         A very apt description.  Thank you, John.

Steven Dapra



At 07:26 PM 10/30/07 -0700, John Jacobus wrote:
>Same stuff we have been seeing for years.  Lots of statistics.  No dead 
>bodies.
>
>--- Steven Dapra <sjd at swcp.com> wrote:
>
> > 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