Americans are regularly exposed to low levels of radiation during CT scans, fueling media speculation that this routine medical procedure is driving an epidemic of cancers. Is there any truth to the CT scan-cancer association? Let's look at the data.
Join Cameron English, Dr. Chuck Dinerstein and Dr. Josh Bloom on Episode 129 of the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss:
Are CT scans silently triggering a cancer epidemic — or are we being misled by speculative modeling and media-fueled fear? A new article warns of 103,000 additional cancers from diagnostic imaging, yet offers no empirical evidence, just an alarming prediction based on a controversial theory. Before we let panic dictate policy, it’s worth asking: where’s the data?
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