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Re: Children may get too much radiation in CT scan
> When it comes to children I think we need to be extra careful. I recommend
> reading Pierce and Preston's article from Radiation Research 154, 178-186
> (2000). A quote from that paper states, "one of the important things
> learned from the RERF investigations is that solid cancer radiation risks
> persist even 50 years after exposure. An adequate description is that,
> given sex and age at exposure, an acute radiation exposure increases normal
> age-specific solid cancer rates by a dose-dependent factor throughout life."
>
> Chuck Pickering, RSO
> University of Southern California
Why would you apply instantaneous n+gamma radiation from a bomb, with no
good dose estimates, when you could use hundreds of follow-up studies on
patients over decades that show no effect, except in specific conditions at
high doses/rates? (including Alice Stewart)
Regards, Jim
muckerheide@mediaone.net
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