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X-rays

For risk from X-rays, see:
http://www.xrayrisk.com/index.php

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Radiation therapy

For a comprehensive look at radiation therapy, go to:
http://radiology.rsna.org/content/251/1/166.full

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CT and PET scans

To learn more about radiation from CTs and other procedures, go to:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/medical-radiation-soars-with-risks-often-overlooked/

For radiation dose from CT/PET scan and subsequent risk, see:
http://radiology.rsna.org/content/251/1/166.full

For increased cancers in children who have had CT scans, go to:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)60815-0/abstract

For additional information on the life and work of Allan Cormack see: , “The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979: Allan M. Cormack, Godfrey N. Hounsfield,” at: www.Nobelprize.org

For more on the life of Godrey Hounsfield see:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1979/hounsfield-autobio.html

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Lung cancer screening

To learn more, go to:

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/screening/lung/HealthProfessional/page1

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac.21177/pdf

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Mammograms

For details on mammograms, go to:
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/detection/mammograms

To learn more about the controversy surrounding mammograms, go to:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1206809
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/ignoring-the-science-on-mammograms/

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/17/health/he-breast-overdiagnosis17

For an article on the Effect of three decades of screening mammography on breast-cancer incidence, go to:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=N%20Engl%20J%20Med%20367%3A1998-2005%2C%202012

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