CT and PET scans can raise the risk of cancer

It is important that, when the command and implement appropriate, CT scanning, the PET scan, and other medical imaging study provides huge potential benefits of patients and their doctors and medical imaging benefits far outweigh the risks in this case. However, since the emergence of CT scanning and other forms of advanced medical imaging, many doctors have been more and more began to rely on these imaging study when other methods of clinical diagnosis, don't make patient large doses of ionizing radiation will work as well.

This research focus on health maintenance organizations, because these organizations usually has a very strong utilization management system, is for the purpose of monitoring and prevention, waste or improper medical research, including unnecessary medical imaging examination. Considering the use of advanced medical imaging study to skyrocketing medical treatment of the world in recent years, the new study authors tried to evaluate trend in the use of advanced medical imaging study between hmo, especially.