Cancer Risk of Medical Scan Equal to 1400 Cigarettes

CT Scan Radiation Potentially Lethal for Children

Pediatric CAT scans are estimated to cause hundreds of cancer deaths every year. View the study referenced in this video: http://crr.columbia.edu/faculty/brenner/papers/ajr1.pdf

It has been estimated that about 0.4% of all cancers in the United States may be attributable to the radiation from CT studies.

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Written by Sayer Ji, Founder
Newly published research from the journal cancer indicates that conventional radiation-based cancer treatments may actually be driving the cancer into greater malignancy. Irradiated breast cancer cells were found to be 30 times more capable of forming new tumors than nonirradiated breast cancer cells.
~Cancer Risk of Medical Scan Equal to 1400 Cigarettes

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