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Date: | Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:09:02 -0400 |
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Royce writes, "many docs feel that you receive less radiation during a
mammogram than you would in flying from OK to Colorado. . ."
This may be true, but I have no control over the background radiation to
which I am exposed. I do have control over voluntary medical procedures
that expose me to radiation. Radiation itself will cause cancer, and
the risk, as I understand it, is cumulative. So even modest doses just
add to the total. And I have heard all my life that "It's just a very
small dose." Then a few years later someone modifies some technique and
suddenly the "new & improved" technique is much safer than the one that
was supposed to have been "safe" before.
Pardon me, but doesn't this sound a lot like formula marketing?
P.D. Gordon RN, BS, BSN, IBCLC
Div of Public Health-Communicable Disease
T 302 995-8653
F 302 995-8616
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