CT scans and cancer riskby
Marie L.
Careful of CT scans, ESPECIALLY of your pelvis. From Medscape:
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December 17, 2009 — Computed tomography (CT) scans are widely used and are an invaluable tool for medical...
CT Scans Boost Cancer Riskby
DiseaseProofscanningcancer patients that have cured their cancer; via Reuters.
Not a new concern. According to Dr. Fuhrman, other radiation scans, like mammograms, also up cancer-risk. Claiming, “The younger...
CT Scans Could Raise Cancer Risk...by
DiseaseProofscans could increase the risk of radiation-induced cancer.
CT scans use radiation to generate a three... 55 to 75, received CT scans every five years there would be an additional 42 cases of cancer...
CT scans increasing cancer riskby
Katherine B.
dosage involved with each scan and then estimated lifetime risks of cancer that could be attributed...,” the authors write.
The estimated number of CT scans that would lead to the development of one cancer case...
CT scan radiation and cancer risk controversy continuesby
Dr. John Z.
calling for an open discussion of the facts about radiation hazards from computed tomography scanning (CT scans) in light of recent public concerns and news reports about radiation dose.
Medical physicists...
Coronary Calcium Scans Can Raise Cancer Risksby
Davis Liu
in 100,000, which is a little more than the increased cancer risk by this CT scanning, doctors and women... your cholesterol.
The entire article is here.
Coronary Calcium Scans Can Raise Cancer Risks
Health...
CT Scans cause cancer?by
Pat S.
to one in a thousand patients will develop cancer from this
exposure. [2] Sixty million CT scans a year.... In this case, Medscape Today from WebMD.
This especially grabbed me :
"CT scans use multiple x...
i have a raised lymph node in my left breast cud this be cancer
i have had a right mastecomy in may and undergoing chemo trial at the moment i have had ct scan and they detected this raised lymph node in my left breast they are going to make a decision either i have biopsy or see a surgeon but i need to now if it cud be the cancer returned.
Denisecrap
Chemotherapy sucks; painful lymphnode despite chemotherapy
is that this is NOT lymphoma. I am basing this hunch on your negative gallium scan. It's unusual for the lymph node to be cancerous in the setting of a negative gallium scan. It sounds like you had a nasty infection in that area... I've completed two rounds of chemotherapy. My gallium scan is negative. Two weeks ago they started...crap
How do you start to build yourself back after a year of chemo..When will I feel alive again??
I completed my second round of chemotherapy this week. My Gallium scan was totally negative... question; What is life like after the cancer battle is over, and the battle to regain your life..., and you start questioning your ownself. Just realize that recovery from cancer is no less challanging...crap
Mondors
i have mondor's....my mmr scan shows nothing in particular so the nurse said who did my scan, is mondors related to cancer?
louloucrap
tests to be done
I have finished with chemo and radiation after a mastectomy - what scans and/or tests should be done??
Lolocrap
Kidney cancer?
may indeed just have an abscess, make sure it is followed up with repeat scans. If there's anything abnormal, remember the cancer... The CT scan of a friend with AIDS shows "something in one of the kidneys". They say perhaps an abscess, perhaps a malignancy; a needle biopsy "found no malignancy but was unable to rule out cancer...crap