- Radiation after lung surgery may be harmful (Associated Press, Milwaukee Journal, July 24, 1998)
- A full-body CT scan equals about 500-to-700 ordinary chest X-rays (“Are Body Scans a Scam?” Newsweek, May 19, 2002 https://www.newsweek.com/are-body-scans-scam-145379; & “Death Rays,” Newsweek, April 2, 2014 https://www.newsweek.com/2014/04/11/death-rays-248079 )
- Medical X-rays May Join Carcinogen List–Early CT Scans Linked to Latent Cancers (USA Today, Dec. 31, 2002)
- Report Links Increased Cancer Risk to CT Scans (Associated Press, New York Times, Nov. 29. 2007 https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/us/29scan.html)
- A single chest CT scan is about 100 times the dose of a standard chest X-ray (“CT Scans: Too Much of a Good Thing?” Newsweek, Dec. 5, 2008; https://www.newsweek.com/ct-scans-too-much-good-thing-83391)
- FDA scientist Julian Nicholas testified he was fired after he opposed the approval of CT scans for colon cancer screening on safety grounds (AP, Mpls StarTribune, March 31, 2010 https://www.seattletimes.com/business/scientist-fda-suppressed-imaging-safety-concerns/)
- “Overused CT scans expose patients to deadly levels of radiation” (Cardiologist Rita Redberg & radiologist Rebecca Smith-Bindman, “We Are Giving Ourselves Cancer,” New York Times, Jan. 31, 2014 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/opinion/we-are-giving-ourselves-cancer.html)
- 70 million CT scans done in the US in 2007 could lead to 29,000 future cancers (National Institutes of Health, “Cancer Risks Associated with External Radiation From Diagnostic Imaging Procedures,” fn. 128, “Projected cancer risks from computed tomographic scans performed in the United States in 2007,” Archives of Internal Medicine, Dec. 14, 2009, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3548988/; and Janet Epping, “Link Between X-Rays And Increased Childhood Leukemia Risk,” Medical News Today, Oct. 6, 2010 www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/203521.php?sr&trendmd-shared=1)
- In 2012 the Institute of Medicine found that medical imaging is one of the leading causes of breast cancer (“Death Rays,” Newsweek, April 11, 2014, newsweek.com/2014/04/11/death-rays-248079.html)
-JL
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