CT Scans -A New Study Links to Increased Risk of Cancer

Financial ties often trump sound medical decision making. If a practice owns a technology, believe me, it will be used. A new study In Med Page Today documents the use of CT scans has increased dramatically from about 3 million in 1980 to about 70 million in 2007 and that the that the radiation dose delivered from a CT scan is much higher than that delivered by conventional radiography.
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