Did you know that those fancy procedures that are used every day to treat and diagnose illnesses could be causing harm to people in the long run? Several different expert agencies in the world of cancer have determined that both x- and gamma rays are classified as “known human carcinogens”. In the article “Cancer risks from diagnostic radiology: the impact of new epidemiological data” by E J Hall and D J Brenner discusses the topic of how diagnostic radiology procedures do affect the risk of cancer later in life. The authors of this article compared lifetime data and statistics from the survivors of the Japanese atomic bombs to children who had been exposed to radiation from CT scans. This is how they began their studies in 2008. The researchers
