November 29, 2007

Cancer risk from overuse of CT scans

The Wall Street Journal reports on an article in this week's New England Journal of Medicine :

"Doctors are ordering too many unnecessary diagnostic CT scans, exposing their patients to potentially dangerous levels of radiation that could increase their risk of cancer, according to Columbia University researchers."
Posted by schwitz at November 29, 2007 08:23 AM | TrackBack
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