Ep 53 Radiation: X-Ray Marks the Spot
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Cancer Screening
If your overall average risk is 40% and you increase that by getting a spiral CT to 40.1%, is that significant? Right. What is the threshold at which we declare something too high of a risk? Exactly. 0.1% is significant to that one person who develops cancer from that spiral CT scan. But then there's 999 others who 40% of them are going to still get cancer from some other source. And maybe even that person who might have developed cancer from a spiral CT got cancer from something else instead. Mm-hmm. So yeah. It's, it's, it reminds me of how antibiotics are easier to test than vaccines. Yes.Exactly.
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