I was very distressed to learn last week that Angelina Jolie had decided to have a double mastectomy. Apparently she did this in hopes of reducing her risk of breast cancer. Now I hear that she is considering having her ovaries removed as well. She is being
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The use of advanced diagnostic imaging in the US has substantially increased between 1996 and 2010. The use of CT scans tripled during that time, dramatically increasing lifetime radiation exposure as CT scans and nuclear medicine examinations deliver far higher doses of radiation than conventional x-rays. Researchers
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