As a person who had two minor head injuries and took a CT after each one (to find nothing, thankfully) in the last 6 months...
I find this rather disturbing.
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#22Any people here who go to the dentist?
Specifically, the American Dental Association's
guidelines for heathy persons suggest that
* children receive 1 x-ray every 1-2 years,
* teens every 1.5-3 years,
* and adults every 2-3 years.
I was personally very surprised and alarmed by this.
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#24>One in 10 Americans undergo a CT scan every year, and many of them get more than one.
For what?
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#25I am a surviving AML patient, relapsed once and had a stim cell donor. I have had over 50-60 CT scans and I have one or two a month to monitor my lungs for fluids. This article makes me chuckle cause who knows what it's doing to me, but without the CT scans to spot pneumonia and other infections in my lungs I would probably have died already.
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#26Cancers rates are have been on the decline or remaining steady not rising. Look at the stats for the most common types of cancer. http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/prost.html http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/colorect.html http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/breast.html http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/lungb.html
I wonder how discouraging people from air travel influences cancer rates...
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#27>One in 10 Americans undergo a CT scan every year, and many of them get more than one. For what?
For back pain? More than half of the people at some point in life develop some for back pain. It's scary so if you can afford a scan you get it. Of course there's nothing wrong and the pain goes away by itself in following months, usually after switching chair in which you spend most of your waking hours.
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#28What about MRIs? Don't they offer the same benefits of CT scans but without all the radiation?
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#29Any people here who go to the dentist? Specifically, the American Dental Association's guidelines for heathy persons suggest that * children receive 1 x-ray every 1-2 years, * teens every 1.5-3 years, * and adults every 2-3 years. ~ http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/243952.php I was personally very surprised and alarmed by this.
Why are you alarmed? How significant is a 5x greater risk of meningioma?
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#30I know several people that died of cancer, and as far as I know none of them had a CT scan before it. In contrast, the one who was often scanned during his illness, lived almost 10 years with cancer.
The article just says CT scan has higher radiation but other than that no hard facts are presented. Looks like the NYT is writing research articles now...