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To: Hal1950

Is the associated cancer incidents due to more effective searches or due to the CT procedures itself?

I would propose the success of CT tests are more the reality.


9 posted on 08/31/2004 9:27:33 AM PDT by azhenfud ("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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To: azhenfud

"Is the associated cancer incidents due to more effective searches or due to the CT procedures itself? I would propose the success of CT tests are more the reality."


It appears that the mortality (not incidence) increase is just an estimate of future mortality based on the radiation exposure. This makes sense, since screening full-body CT scans have not been done long enough to acutally track any change in cancer incidence or mortality. BTW, these are called "full-body scams" by many radiologists, who realize the inappropriateness of the procedure.


18 posted on 08/31/2004 11:57:35 AM PDT by armydoc
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