In 1895, a man named Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen the created the first x-ray (Bryant 2014). Then by the late 1800s doctors were using X-rays to diagnose broken bones and finding pieces of bullets inside the patients (Bryant 2014). It also gave the doctors an insight into the human body, without drawing blood, X-rays revolutionized the field of medicine (Bryant 2014). There are many different types of medical imaging and each use different technologies and techniques and they are Computed Tomography (CT), Fluoroscopy and radiography (“Conventional x-ray” including Mammography) and they all use ionizing radiation. In this essay the X-ray will be discussed on how it can help cancer and how it can help bring on cancer as well. Firstly, I will be talking
