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Article: You heard it here first: CT scans and cancer risk.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Activist
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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Loyal readers of The Women's Health Activist weren't surprised when the television news shows and daily newspapers covered the "news" that Computed Tomography (CT) scans increased the risk of cancer. Sparked by a review article published in the New England Journal of Medicine on November 29, the media covered the story with headlines such as: "CT scans raise cancer risk", "Rise in CT scans poses cancer risk", and "Cancer tied to needless CT scans".
While we're delighted that the broader public now knows that CT scans increase the risk of cancer, we're also proud that we were able to inform our readers of this risk more than a year earlier. In July 2006, Adriane ...