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What's the cancer risk of an abdominal ct scan to a 10 year old child?
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Negligible: A single ct scan has a negligible risk of cancer, but all radiation exposures are additive over your lifetime.Those whose medical conditions require multiple such procedures for assessment or monitoring a specific condition begin to add up to a significant exposure. We all get daily radiation from the sun.
Answered 12/2/2014
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