Radiation dose from CT

• THE INDEPENDENT

• FRIDAY 30 JANUARY 2004

• Hundreds of cancer cases blamed on dentist x-rays

• RADIATION FROM X-rays in dentist surgeries and hospitals causes 700 people in Britain to develop cancer each year, researchers* said today………

• …. head of medical dosimetry at NRPB said: “CT scanning is expanding so rapidly. The images are so fantastic that not a lot of attention is being paid to the doses used.”