HEALTH HAZARD OF CT SCANS

EXPERTS in different countries are expressing thier concern of the extencive use of CT(COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY)SCANS.
David Brenner and Eric Hall of Columbia University Medical Center in New York say even though CT scans save lives and speed up the diagnostic process, they may be responsible for 2 percent of all cancers in the next 20 to 30 years.According to them a normal CT SCAN can deliver upto 500 times more radiation than normal X-ray.
The risk is high in CHILDREN,due to the INCREASED SENSITIVITY of their tissues to radiation.
Now a days CT SCAN is used unnecesserly in many hospitalls, unaware of its health hazards.It is used in many cases the use is unjustified which can be substituted by other methods like ULTRA-SOUND.