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Do the benefits of radiation outweighs the risks?

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the benefits of CT scans likely outweigh the risks hopefully that helps
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Answer: Depends on the problem you're using it for like for example patients with breast cancer radiotherapy outweighs risk of future secondary malignancy and heart disease so I guess it does outweigh the risk

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