January 12, 2017

Fear of diagnostic low-dose radiation exposure is overstated, experts assert

In an article published in the January 2017 issue of “The Journal of Nuclear Medicine,” researchers assert that exposure to medical radiation does not increase a person’s risk of getting cancer. The long-held belief that even low doses of radiation, such as those received in diagnostic imaging, increase cancer risk is based on an inaccurate, 70-year-old hypothesis, according to the authors. {read more here}