Medical Industry Causing Cancer - Patients Exposed to Atomic Bomb Levels of Radiation through Medical Imaging, CT Scans, Mammograms

NaturalNews | Wednesday, March 04, 2009 | by Mike Adams

(NaturalNews) A new report released by the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement reveals that Americans' exposure to radiation has increased more than 600 percent over the last three decades. Most of that increase has come from patients' exposure to radiation through medical imaging scans such as CT scans and mammograms.

Most patients have no awareness of the dangers of ionizing radiation due to medical imaging scans. Virtually no patients -- and few doctors -- realize that one CT scan exposes the body to the equivalent of several hundred X-rays (http://www.naturalnews.com/023582.html), for example. Most women undergoing mammograms have no idea that the radiation emitted by mammography machines actually causes cancer by exposing heart and breast tissue to dangerous ionizing radiation that directly causes DNA damage.

Even low doses of radiation can add up to significant increases in lifelong cancer risk. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (2007) found that survivors of the 1945 atomic bombs unleashed on Japan during World War II still faced significant increases in lifetime cancer risk. And the levels of radiation to which these particular study subjects were exposed is equivalent to receiving only two or three CT scans, explains an ABC News story

Yes, it's true: A couple of CT scans can expose your body to as much radiation as standing a few miles from an atomic bomb explosion. This is a simple scientific fact.

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Americans' Radiation Exposure Rises 6-Fold in 29 Years

CT Scans and Other Radiation-Based Medical Tests May Be to Blame for Increase in Radiation Exposure

By AUDREY GRAYSON | ABC News Medical Unit | March 3, 2009

Americans are now exposed to about seven times more radiation on average than they were in 1980, new research finds, and medical scans may be the reason.

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A study published in the November 2007 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine notes that those survivors who were exposed to low doses of radiation -- about the equivalent of the dose administered to an adult patient undergoing two or three CT scans -- still experienced a significant increase in their overall cancer risk.

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