TOXICITY
NIH will start keeping track of patients' radiation exposure
By Liz Szabo
Source:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-02-01-radiation01_ST_N.htm
Concerned that Americans may be accumulating too much lifetime radiation exposure from medical tests, doctors at the National Institutes of Health will begin recording how much radiation patients receive from CT scans and other procedures in their electronic medical records.
A study in the Archives of Internal Medicine in December estimated that radiation from such procedures, whose use has grown dramatically in recent years, causes 29,000 new cancers and 14,500 deaths a year.
A second Archivesstudy that month said the problem could be even worse, calculating that patients get four times as much radiation from imaging tests as previously believed. Children are particularly vulnerable because they're small and still growing.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-02-01-radiation01_ST_N.htm
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NIH will start keeping track of patients' radiation exposure
By Liz Szabo
Source:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-02-01-radiation01_ST_N.htm
Concerned that Americans may be accumulating too much lifetime radiation exposure from medical tests, doctors at the National Institutes of Health will begin recording how much radiation patients receive from CT scans and other procedures in their electronic medical records.
A study in the Archives of Internal Medicine in December estimated that radiation from such procedures, whose use has grown dramatically in recent years, causes 29,000 new cancers and 14,500 deaths a year.
A second Archivesstudy that month said the problem could be even worse, calculating that patients get four times as much radiation from imaging tests as previously believed. Children are particularly vulnerable because they're small and still growing.
For the full article:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-02-01-radiation01_ST_N.htm
Copyright 2010 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc. All Rights Reserved.
