Health Wire reports that one of every 270 women at age 40 who has CT angiography – a test for clogged coronary arteries – will develop cancer from the radiation used in the test, a study published in the December 14 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine has found.
Those CT scans typically expose women to as much radiation as from 51 mammograms or 309 chest X-rays. Radiation to the abdomen, chest and pelvis is riskier for women than men because of the chance of breast or gynecological cancers.
From: Consumer Reports on Health – March 2010
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