{"id":936,"date":"2012-08-27T20:54:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T20:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=936"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:05:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:05:21","slug":"medical-radiation-soars-with-risks-often-overlooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=936","title":{"rendered":"Medical Radiation Soars, With Risks Often Overlooked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times | August 20, 2012, <em>4:02 pm | By <a title=\"See all posts by JANE E. BRODY\" href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/author\/jane-e-brody\/\">JANE E. BRODY<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Radiation, like alcohol, is a double-edged sword. It has indisputable medical advantages: Radiation can reveal hidden problems, from broken bones and lung lesions to heart defects and tumors. And it can be used to treat and sometimes cure certain cancers.<\/p>\n<p>But it also has a potentially serious medical downside: the ability to damage DNA and, 10 to 20 years later, to cause cancer. CT scans alone, which deliver 100 to 500 times the radiation associated with an ordinary X-ray and now provide three-fourths of Americans\u2019 radiation exposure, are believed to account for 1.5 percent of all cancers that occur in the United States. <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/20\/medical-radiation-soars-with-risks-often-overlooked\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times | August 20, 2012, 4:02 pm | By JANE E. BRODY Radiation, like alcohol, is a double-edged sword. It has indisputable medical advantages: Radiation can reveal <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=936\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[413,412,312,411],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-how-to-for-patients","tag-cancer","tag-imaging","tag-radiation","tag-radiation-exposure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}