Does a career in radiology really cause cancer?

Question

Radiology is my dream career, but many ppl say that it causes cancer, is that true?

Answer 1

That is not true at all. Radiologic technologists get about the same amount of radiation as everyone else (did you know that you are exposed to radiation just by being outside or flying in an airplane?). We wear badges that measure our exposure. We are not in the room when the x-rays are taken, but when we have to be, we wear protection. It is a very safe career.

Answer 2

If proper precautions are taken, there should be no more risk than normal. They thought that submariners in nuclear subs would have the same problem. They discovered that they got even less radiation exposure than normal people. But just in case consider this - 11 - Try Vitamin C therapy. A few years ago a cancer specialist came out with a paper that said the best cancer/infection fighter found to date was Interferon. At the time it was $15,000 a gram. The paper also said that Interferon was a by-product of the natural breakdown of Vitamin C in your body. Shortly after that the FDA tried to make Vitamin C by prescription only. Guess why? The FDA has the RDA for Vitamin C set at 64 mg a day, just enough to ward off scurvy. Linus Pauling, who got a Nobel Prize for his work with Vitamin C and a second Nobel Prize for Organic Chemistry, said that 1000 mg a day should be the minimum and 2000 mg a day if you are sick or smoke. He played tennis almost daily until the day he died at 96. 39 Personally, I got sick twice a year for 2 weeks at a time, for more than 20 years, with something to this day the doctors have no idea what it was, but for a week in the middle of those 2 weeks I was flat on my back. I started Vitamin C therapy once I gave up on the doctors. I took enough to be asymptomatic for those 2 weeks. 40 Too much and I got diarrhea and too little and I got sick. Within a narrow range, and it followed a bell curve over those 2 weeks, I was not sick. At the height I was taking 40,000 mg a day and 300,000 over the 2 weeks. After 2 years of that I have not been sick since – more than 15 years. Vitamin C acts as a natural diuretic so you need to drink a lot of water and watch your body in total, but my kidneys did not dissolve as the doctors predicted, or get massive kidney stones as other predicted. (If you find this useful, copy it and give it to a friend. 41 Somebody got to Yahoo and they delete this as soon as they find it) I did not dissolve my bones as some predicted or completely calcify my joints as others predicted. I had no side effects at all. It might be something to consider.

Answer 3

My wife has a friend who is currently dying of cancer because the hospital's radiology equipment was not properly shielded.

There are lots of jobs that cause death if you're unlucky. There are lots of jobs that cause death if you're careless. There are lots of jobs that cause death if your employer cuts corners.

This is one of them.

Answer 4

If it grow to be like that, why could all of us take the job? This container is precisely regulated, and all of us be attentive to the thank you to guard ourselves. there is not any bigger danger over the final inhabitants.

Answer 5

Lets face it everything these days causes cancer.....