Re: Children may get too much radiation in CT scan

["William G. Nabor" <wgnabor@uci.edu>]

Doesn't this assume each CAT scan is given to a different patient?  Having
just undergone 2 of the darn things in 6 months for the same as yet
undiagnosed problem, I imagine that several of the patients get more than
one.  Any ideas what percentage of the patients in year one get another in
year two?


In Message Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:28:09 -0600 (CST),
  Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu> writes:

> --There is nothing contradictory here. If one year's treatment
>will eventually cause 500 cancers, and such treatments are conducted every
>year, there will eventually be 500 deaths per year.
>
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