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(Date:12/14/2009)... future cancers could be linked to scans performed in 2007 ... CT scans are exposing patients to far more radiation than ... thousands of cancers a year, two new studies claim. , ... of the Archives of Internal Medicine , the study ... Redberg, are calling on clinicians to limit radiation exposure to ...
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