Re: Children may get too much radiation in CT scan

[Ted de Castro <tdc@xrayted.com>]

That's the beauty of LNTH - all the stuff you DON'T need to know to draw
a conclusion.

Linear is linear - doesn't matter HOW much you give any one person -
unless you really get carried away and kill one! - it all works out in
the math!

"William G. Nabor" wrote:
> 
> 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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