RE: News Article: Patients, Physicians Unaware of CT Radiation Exposure

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

The process for DNA damage to mutation to cancerous

growth in biology is a long process, which can take

decades.  Personnally, I worry about driving to and

from work everyday.  On the other hand, my spoon and I

have a more symbiotic relationship.



--- garyi@trinityphysics.com wrote:

> From:           	osuleiman@comcast.net

> > endless, but theoretially one photon could result

> in a cancer.

> 

> This is not very motivating, because theoretically

> my breakfast spoon can kill me.  

> Actually, I suspect that my spoon is much more

> likely to kill me than a single photon.  Its 

> part of a very, very, long list of things that can

> theoretically kill me.  So, those photons 

> should just take a number and get in line.  

> 

> -Gary Isenhower

> 

> 





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"We cannot escape danger, or the fear of danger, by crawling into bed and pulling the covers over our heads."

-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt



-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com





	

		

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