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A member asked:
How high is your chance of getting cancer compared to someone who never had 2 ct scans or a few x rays? is radiation used freq in hospitals to blame?
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Misleading claim: The radiation you get from a CT scan is maybe 3 mSV, which is the same as the extra radiation an airline pilot gets in a year from flying. Nobody's shown an increase in cancer in pilots. Radiation from chest x-rays is far less. Frankly, you need to stop reading doctor-bashing sites by crooks posing as "humanitarians" -- life's hard enough without fearing the imaging studies you need.
Answered 7/12/2015
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