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- Title
Full-Body CT Screening: Preventing or Producing Cancer?
- Authors
Twombly, Renee
- Abstract
Reports on the findings of a medical research conducted by scientists from the Harvard Medical School and Columbia University regarding cancer risks associated with full-body computed tomography screening. Comparison between the dose of radiation to the lung or stomach from a single full-body computed tomography scan and exposure to an atomic bomb; Emergence of health facilities that offer full-body screening across the country; Reaction of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the American College of Radiology to the findings of the study.
- Subjects
TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL radiography; PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of radiation; MEDICAL technology; CANCER risk factors; CANCER research
- Publication
JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2004, Vol 96, Issue 22, p1650
- ISSN
0027-8874
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jnci/96.22.1650