/sci/ - Science & Math

you don't get shit like this unless you are receiving a high dose of radiation. 2 mSv is just not that. The more scans you get in a smaller period of time, then yes you simply increase your odds of something healing incorrectly. People who are affected by radiation like this are radiation workers, or they have a disorder that runs in their family that makes them prone to tumors. There are I think five or so, and they're all pretty rare. You know if you have it.

There are many people that get many head CT scans per year. If a head CT scan was that dangerous, it just flat out wouldn't be used unless it was an extreme situation, like you were rushed into the ER from a major car vehicle accident and you're comatose or something and they need to know what's wrong RIGHT NOW so they can do surgery RIGHT THERE. A CT scan doesn't pose that much of a risk unless you get many in a short amount of time and if you have some family history. many people that get malignant brain tumors like gliomas did in fact have an environmental cause where their close friends also had gotten them, as well as their father/brother having it.

Working in construction and being exposed to solvents increases your risk. High dose radiation is the only clear cause of tumors, but high dose radiation REALLY fucks your shit up no matter where it is, and a tumor is desu the least of your worries at the time. These studies freaking people out over a single scan is just dumb. It's just not enough energy to damage you unless you have the disorders that promotes tumor growth, which are very rare. If a single head CT scan gave you brain cancer, we'd have a very significant increase in brain cancer cases, and we just don't, yet we've have head CT scans since the 70s, and head imaging was the original purpose of the CT scanner.

>>8206007
>chemistry major
>making fun of plebs
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