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Computer tomography treatment can lead to development of cancer diseases at patients.
The American roentgenologists warn that the patients, who undergo physical examination with use of a computer tomograph, hoping to find out a cancer tumor at an early stage, run the risk to earn a cancer as a result of examination.
According to the experts, using a computer tomography of all body, the patient receives the same doze of an irradiation that was received by the people who were in two and a half kilometers from epicenters of nuclear explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The doze of the radiation during the full examination on a computer tomography 100 times exceeds a doze received, for example, during mammography - radiological examination of mammary glands.