Would you cancel your trip if you knew that there would be a suicide bombing in Istanbul over the weekend?
Or would you buy a ticket if you knew that the jackpot would be in the town you live in?
Aren't these risks too big to be taken or ignored?
If you knew the risks of tomography, you would not even be able to go near hospitals.
Turkey ranks 1st among European countries in terms of the rate of EMAR requested from patients, and 2nd in terms of tomography. How proud we are, we follow the latest technologies closely. Despite all the risks, doctors and patients join hands and get tomography scans all the time. Patients want it, and doctors approve it, perhaps to avoid missing something or for other reasons.
Recently, many patients I sent to the hospital for chest X-rays came back with a CT scan in their hands, thus necessitating the need to write this article.
Radiation as we know it. In this sense, perhaps his first victim was Madame Curie, who worked intensively with him. Although he won the Nobel Prize in two different fields for his work with uranium, he paid the price with his life by getting blood cancer for using radiation in his experiments, the harmful effects of which he did not know at the time. Even the notebook in which he took notes in his studies emits so much radiation that even after almost 100 years, it is stored in a special safe that does not let out any radiation. It is a machine. The inventors have already won the Nobel Prize in medicine. It's like cutting a living person and looking inside. This examination, which first came to the fore in brain-related diseases, is an indispensable examination in the detection of masses in organs such as cancer, bleeding and abscess. Among imaging techniques, we receive the highest radiation during tomography. An average tomography gives 200-400 times the radiation of a normal plain film. Although it has not been proven, it is thought that an abdominal CT scan taken at a young age has a 1 in 2000 chance of causing cancer. We obtain most of this information thanks to the Japanese who were exposed to radiation after the atomic bomb. Just a tomography scan of a person living 2.5 km away from the atomic bomb dropped on Japan. It gives the dose that people receive. With a single tomography scan, we receive the natural radiation we have received over the years. It is thought that 2% of all cancers in America occur due to tomography. You got goosebumps, didn't you? Let's not exaggerate that much. Let's play with the numbers a bit to put your mind at ease. Cancer is actually normally a part of our lives. We are talking about rates where one in every 8 women gets breast cancer, almost one in three people who live a long life gets cancer, and smoking causes a double-digit risk of cancer. Let's say our lifetime chance of getting cancer is 30 percent, have we had a tomography scan? 30.05 percent, you're not that scared, are you?
In conclusion, tomography is an imaging method that is so perfect that no other examination can replace it when necessary, and is indispensable for many diseases. However, it is also too dangerous a method to be used for check-up.
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