Cancer Risk From Cardiac CT Overstated: Medical University Of South Carolina Researchers

Cancer Risk From Cardiac CT Overstated: Medical University Of South Carolina Researchers
Medical News Today
12th November 2008


Radiology and cardiovascular researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, S.C., have presented new data that shows the risk of cancer from exposure to radiation during computed tomography for cardiovascular disease has been overstated and that new estimates are several times lower than previously published conclusions. The MUSC researchers presented their findings at the American Heart Association's meeting in New Orleans.

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