The Pros And Cons Of CT Scan

CT scans has been used since 1980. In the recent year, CT scan use increased from 3 million CT scans to 70 million by 2007. According to this article, CT scans alone will cause nearly 30,000 unnecessary cancer cases (about 2 percent of cancer cases), which will lead to about 14,500 deaths.CT scan of the chest delivers 100 times the radiation of a conventional chest X-ray. This article based in many other studies that has been done concerning the increase of using the CT scanner. According to this article "About one-third of all CT scans that are done right now are medically unnecessary … Virtually anyone who presents in the emergency room with pain in the belly or a chronic headache will automatically get a CT scan. Is that justified?” I totally