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A 31-year old asked:
Will your hair grow back after receiving a high dose radiation for cancer treatment?
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A 17-year old male asked:
What's the chances of me getting too high of a radiation dose when i go for a CT scan?
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A 33-year old female asked:
Is daughter's cumulative dose of radiation from angiogram to look at veins in spine concerning or abnormally high?since she's a child,how likely cncr?
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A 46-year old female asked:
Dentist took X-ray of tooth plus 3D same side. Said low dose machine. Had vest pulled up as high as possible. Radiation risk?
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A 42-year old female asked:
Having SPECT, scintigraphy, HRCT and normal CT of thorax in next few months. Had same 2 years ago. How high & dangerous is this dose of radiation?
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A 65-year old female asked:
I am trying to find out if a sinus ct scan has a radiation dose that is low or high? I was told by the radiologist that it would be 500 mgycm per centimeter. Is this low or high? I am trying not to get much radiation due to other ct scans Ive had.
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A 30-year old female asked:
A doctor ordered a full-body CT scan for unintended weight loss. He admitted that a radiation dose is very high. Ive already had over 10 CT scans within 2 years. Am I at high risk for developing radiaton-induced cancer (breast, thyroid ect)?
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A 40-year old asked:
Is the formation of my leukemia associated with being exposed to high levels of benzene and radiation?
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A 26-year old female asked:
They say electricity emits non ionizing radiation but is it still non ionizing if the voltage is very high ? Like high voltage electric substations or powerlines? And do they have instant biological effects ?
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A 25-year old male asked:
I heard body scanners at airports emit high levels of radiation. Is this true? If so can i choose not to go through it?
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A 26-year old female asked:
I heard that emf radiation is non ionizing but can a very high intensity of emf make the radiation ionizing? if not then what makes a radiation ionizing? and how do they both effect the dna ?
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A 26-year old female asked:
Do even the most powerful powerlines give off nonionizing radtiation ? Lets say your in a middle of huge powerful powerlines that have high emf. Does it still give of non ionizing radiation ? Could it be bad for health ?
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A 56-year old male asked:
Is radiation exposure during angiography significantly high?
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A 56-year old female asked:
Lungs full of radiation, what dose that mean?
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A 46-year old female asked:
How much radiation dose in a single rib X-ray view/one side?
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A 32-year old female asked:
Can being exposed to radiation or high frequency cause respiratory anf heary problems?? And how do you go about it?? Which remedy and food to take??
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A 26-year old female asked:
If you come across an electromagnetic field with very high radiation can you get instant dna damage if you stay there for 5 min and is very close to the powerlines ?
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A 48-year old asked:
Thoughts on tesuming high stress life following breast radiation?
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A 42-year old female asked:
What is the maximum radiation dose allowed for children per year from non environmental factors ?
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A 23-year old male asked:
I find a lot of conflicting evidence on the average radiation dose from a CTPA scan. I had one back in 2012 and was curious as to an estimatd rad dose?
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A 20-year old male asked:
What is the radiation exposure dose from EP study??
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A 44-year old female asked:
What is the radiation dose for a dental panoramic x-ray?
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A 21-year old male asked:
What is the radiation dose of a CBCT scan (taken for root canal) and what is it equivalent to in natural radiation?
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A 42-year old asked:
What precautions do docs take to limit the dose of radiation to which patients are exposed to?
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A 24-year old male asked:
Is it true that PT like ultrasound, tens, laser expose the body to radiation? Is it like X-Ray? What is the approx dose from 10 visits?
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A 28-year old male asked:
Does the CT scan shows the radiation dose used in the scan in mSv?
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A 21-year old female asked:
Why do some doctors say that 4 CT n a year is not a lot of radiation but some say yes am i at high risk for a tumor no im 21 & all of the brain?
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A 66-year old female asked:
I just finished radiation and my reticulocytes are high (33.8 % normal is 1.5 - 16.0 %) Is this from radiation? What can be done for my weakness/fatigue/breathlessness?
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A 24-year old female asked:
Why does a high amount of radiation in ct scan not cause more damage than a lower amount of natural radiation over two year time? Doesn't the natural smaller amount of damage overtime give cells a chance to fix damage more than a ct scan?
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A 16-year old male asked:
CT scans produce high amounts of radiation. Wouldn't that cause cancer? Some articles online say CT scans have been linked to cancer.
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