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Boom in CT Scans Alarms Docs

Radiation can unnecessarily increase patients' cancer risk

By Caroline Zimmerman, Newser User

Posted Nov 26, 2007 4:00 PM CST

(Newser) – Advances in CT scans may help doctors diagnose patients quickly effectively, but also expose them to dangerous levels of radiation, the Boston Globe reports. The number of CT scans in the US climbed from 20 million in 1995 to 63 million in 2005, but many... Read full story »

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