CT Radiation and Cancer

Radiation overexposure from medical procedures has become an increasing concern in the past several months, beginning in November when the FDA issued an alert. It’s investigation found CT machines made by General Electric and Toshiba hadn’t been calibrated correctly and were giving patients an overdose of radiation.

More recently, it has been reported that children have an increased chance of developing leukemia from diagnostic X-rays and heart patients have a risk of cancer from cardiac imaging.

See the presentation below to learn more about radiation overexposure.