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700 Healthcare Providers Sign Pledge to Monitor Radiation Use | Hospital Financial and Business News. Written by Rachel Fields | December 03, 2010 A campaign to stop overuse of medical radiation of patients has spurred 700 healthcare providers to sign a pledge to use the least radiation necessary for a procedure, according to an MSNBC report. The Image Wisely campaign, introduced this week at the RSNA meeting, may lead to more review of medical radiation protocols and better sharing of standards on proper radiation doses, as well as more frequent accreditation of imaging facilities, according to an expert panel at a Thursday radiology meeting. The average American's total radiation exposure has increased in recent years because of increased use of imaging tests, particularly CT scans.

As too much radiation can cause cancer, the increased use has raised questions about patient safety. Read the MSNBC report on the Image Wisely campaign. Read more on radiation: -Mayo Clinic to Build $370M Proton Beam Therapy Facilities for Cancer Care -30 Hospitals With Great Oncology Programs. Health care providers promise less radiation. By Carla K. Johnson, The Associated Press CHICAGO — Heath care providers are pledging to stop the overuse of radiation on patients during medical exams in a new, nationwide safety effort launched this week in Chicago. The first step in the Image Wisely campaign is a pledge — signed so far by nearly 700 health care providers — to use the least radiation necessary on patients for a procedure. An expert panel at a radiology meeting Thursday said the campaign may lead to more review of protocols, more accreditation of imaging facilities and more widely shared standards on proper radiation doses.

Too much radiation can cause cancer. "There are lots of reasons that medical images are over-utilized," said William Hendee of the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, speaking on an imaging safety panel at the Radiological Society of North America's annual meeting in Chicago. Then there's "dose creep," when technologists increase the radiation dose to get amazing-looking pictures of the body.

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CT Scans Boost Cancer Rate. CT Scans Boost Cancer Rate Think twice before getting a CT scan. Doses of radiation from commonly performed computed tomography (CT) scans vary widely, appear higher than generally believed and may contribute to an estimated tens of thousands of future cancer cases, according to two reports in the December 14/28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

CT scans have become increasingly common in the United States—about 70 million were performed in 2007, up from 3 million in 1980, according to background information in one of the articles. "While CT scans can provide great medical benefits, there is concern about potential future cancer risks because they involve much higher radiation doses than conventional diagnostic X-rays," the authors of one report write. For example, a chest CT scan exposes the patient to more than 100 times the radiation dose of a routine chest X-ray. Here are some odds of cancer from CT scans.

Facts and Statistics | International Osteoporosis Foundation IOF. Radiographic Fluoroscopy Installed Base and Procedures Declining Since 2004 | Scranton Gillette Communications: ITN and DAIC. X-Ray Imaging: X-Radiation and Gamma Radiation: Comments on Their Nomination as Known Human Carcinogens for the Eleventh Report on Carcinogens (RoC), 9/11/01. Angioplasty and Cardiac Revascularization Statistics.

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