Computed tomography (CT) scans may account for 5% of all cancers annually, according to a new study out of UC San Francisco that cautions against overusing and overdosing CTs.
The danger is greatest for infants, followed by children and adolescents. But adults also are at risk, since they are the most likely to get scans. Nearly 103,000 cancers are predicted to result from the 93 million CT, also known as CAT, scans that were performed in 2023 alone. This is 3 to 4 times more than previous assessments, the authors said. The study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health, appears April 14 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
“CT can save lives, but its potential harms are often overlooked,” said first author Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD, a UCSF radiologist and professor of epidemiology and biostatistics and obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences. UCSFCT scans are a wonderful opportunity to see what is happening inside the body. Radiation and contrast are invasive and and can damage the body. Like vaccines that can kill there needs to be an intelligent understanding of the risk to benefit ratio in a particular case. Sadly many physicians don't take the time or appreciate the risk from treatments. We ought to be warned when we understand that the third leading cause of death in the U.S. is caused by doctors decisions. The UCSF study is not end of the story, but a warning that we need to recognize there is a risk from CT Scans. The risk increases with dose and number of scans. Dose can be higher with older equipment. New equipment could be manufactured if there was a call for lower dose machines, but no one is asking for them.
This information brings back to mind that prevention used to be worth a pound of cure. Not so any more. Prevention today is worth 100 pounds of cure. In other words, God has made us wonderfully, and we ought to walk in the light we have been given that we do not need to pray for a cure, especially when the cure is invasive. As a people we have been given a ministry of health. We know what we ought to do. We above all others ought to have taken advantage of Covid to not only help others strengthen their immune system, but to heal the sick. We used fomentations to heal those who came down with Covid and it works without the danger of killing the patient.
The Covid shot is a good example the danger in using invasive treatments. When Covid first began we were told that those with a weak immune system were at greater risk, which means that those who have a strong immune system were at a lower risk of dying from Covid. But, after a vaccine was rushed out without proper studies as to their safety the whole medical system began to mandate the shot. Nothing was said about how to strengthen the immune system. Some who had a strong immune system died from the shot which did not stop transmitting Covid and did not prevent all from getting infected. We do not understand exactly what will be the long term result of the shot or any other mRNA medicine. When man starts playing with RNA and DNA we can know that the soon coming of Jesus is closer than we think.