[ RadSafe ] CT Risk/Benefit analysis by Maccabee - Great DVDfor meeting

[HOWARD.LONG at comcast.net]

Franz, 

My shift in subject (still CT) from the "criminal" who overdosed with CT  

to the great benefit from CTs and lack of harm from ~ year background radiation 

(even less risk of cancer), seems to have been lost in the translation to Austrian. 



Sorry, Franz. 

   

Howard Long 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Franz Schönhofer" <franz.schoenhofer at chello.at> 
To: "HOWARD LONG" <HOWARD.LONG at comcast.net>, "Clayton J Bradt" <CJB01 at health.state.ny.us> 
Cc: "Jane Orient" <jorient at mindspring.com>, radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu 
Sent: Monday, August 2, 2010 1:27:03 PM 
Subject: AW: [ RadSafe ] CT Risk/Benefit analysis by Maccabee - Great DVDfor meeting 

Howard, 

What happened to this criminal? Was he hanged publicl        y or was he just 
told not to do this again??????? Due to the many "Westeners" at the cinema 
we know very well, that horse thiefs were hanged immediately - whether they 
were guilty or not..... The same was of course for people who killed others. 

Expecting a reasonable answer 

Franz 

Franz Schoenhofer, PhD 
MinRat i.R. 
Habicherg. 31/7 
A-1160 Wien/Vienna 
AUSTRIA 


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- 
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[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] Im Auftrag von 
HOWARD.LONG at comcast.net 
Gesendet: Montag, 02. August 2010 21:42 
An: Clayton J Bradt 
Cc: Jane Orient; radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu 
Betreff: Re: [ RadSafe ] CT Risk/Benefit analysis by Maccabee - Great DVDfor 
meeting 



Howard Maccabee, PhD, MD radiation oncologist, 

 needed thousands of CTs to accurately locate cancers 

he burned out (prostate, breast, etc). 



He responded to, "one of the most important -- but most frightening 

 -- articles I've read  " in "Cancer Risks Associated with CT Scanning" 

 Dachs, American Family Physician, 81,2,1/15/10, 111-114, referring to 

 Computer Tomography - An Increasing Source Of Radiation Exposure, 

Brenner, NEJM 2007,;357,22. 



Entertain and enlighten a meeting of health physicists with 

his half-hour presentation (DVD available from; 

DDP 1601 N. Tucson Blvd # 9 Tucson AZ 85716, 

ddponline.org, or 520 325 2680). 

 For example, new background radiation data adds 

av. 20 mSv (0.2rem) from radon, so 1 CT has < 2 years 

of usual background radiation - and where most radiation - least cancer. 

  

Maccabee refutes, with excellent slides, the Brenner-Dachs fearmongering.  


Howard Long 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clayton J Bradt" <CJB01 at health.state.ny.us> 
To: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu 
Sent: Monday, August 2, 2010 6:53:08 AM 
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Latest installment from NYT on the CT brain perfusion 

 "over doses" 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/health/01radiation.html?_r=1&emc=eta1 

The techs are taking a beating on this, but its the docs and the 
physicists who screwed up.   Of course we are talking about diagnosing a 
stroke in progress so the pressure to use the technique even in doubtful 
situations must be overwhelming.  Still, not understanding the output 
parameters of the new equipment is unforgivable. 

Clayton J. Bradt 
Principal Radiophysicist 
NYS Dept. of Health 

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