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Your readers should be aware that the increased fatal cancer risk posed by annual whole-body CT scans, although still quite high, is in fact almost five times lower than that stated in this article, which says that annual scans from age 45 to 75 would increase a person’s lifetime risk of dying from cancer by […]
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Scanning Risk: Whole-body CT exams may increase cancer
Adults who routinely get whole-body CT scans without medical cause are exposing themselves to doses of radiation that may increase their risk of dying from cancer.
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Cancer Flip-Flop: Gene acts in both proliferation and control of growth
Scientists have identified what might be a new class of cancer-controlling genes that alternates between halting and promoting cancer.
