Friday, January 31, 2014

Medical Irradiation: Culprit In Cancer Rate?

We Are Giving Ourselves Cancer by Rita F. Redberg and Rebeca Smith-Bindman.  The New York Times.  January 30, 2014.

(1)  American exposure to medical radiation has increased more than _________ between the 1980s and 2006.

(2)  CT scans are ______________ times higher than conventional X-rays.

(3)  True or False:  The amount of radiation in a single CT scan is not sufficient to be cancer-causing.

(4)  One in ____ Americans undergo a CT scan every year.

(5)  A 2009 study from the National Cancer Institute estimates that CT scans conducted in 2007 will cause a projected ___________ excess cases over the lifetime of those exposed.

(6)  Consumers can go to the ___________ website to learn about the most commonly overused tests.

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