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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