Diagnostic Medical Equipment Now Causing Cancer.?

Recently I heard a report on how those who have had CT scans, MRI's and such are at a Higher Increase of getting Cancer. The one in particular they spoke about was one that I dealt with where they inject Dye into your heart (Angiogram) and get the pictures. They concluded that those patients have a higher rate of Heart Cancer as well as Breast Cancer...Today I recieved a call from my Drs Office wanting me to come in, and I have to be Honest I am concerned about what I am gonna hear....My question is, should a person have a CT scan done or MRI's when they have now concluded it gives the patient a Higher Risk for getting Cancer? When does a person say Enough is Enough?

They - Meaning Doctors....

CT scans are worse than MRI. Basically any kind of medical imaging involves bombarding your body with energy and seeing what happens.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging works by using strong magnetic fields to temporarily alter the polarity of atomic particles in your body. When they revert to their normal polarity, they release energy which is then picked up by the imaging system. I don't really know the details.

The major difference is that the technique relies on energy that's reflected back out of the body as things return to normal. Other types of scans often rely on bombarding your body with energy with you between the source of that energy and some kind of film or sensor. Then the image is derived from what your body doesn't block. So in a vague way you could consider that one technique is done by your body giving off energy and another by your body absorbing energy.

So go for the MRI and with other types of diagnostics, get as few doses as possible. Each day you sit in front of a computer screen, there's a teeny teeny tiny chance that you'll get some kind of cancer from a random mutation due to the energy coming off the screen. Its there with everything and its a lot higher with things like diagnostic radiation. But its still a very small chance and its offset by the benefit of possibly diagnosing and preventing certain diseases. Weigh the risk.

PS: I just read another answer as I posted this. There are certainly a lot of bunk studies, even within scientific and medical communities. However it has been widely accepted in such communities, since probably the late 60s, that diagnostic radiation does very slightly increase the chance of genetic mutations that may result in cancers.

Well, first of all, who are THEY? You keep saying that THEY have concluded that these tests cause an increases rate of cancer. Who performed the study on this? How many people were involved? Were there any other factors that may have influenced cancer that they did find in people, such as heredity? There are so many studies out there that are bogus. Anyone can perform a so-called "study" and print their so-called "findings". It doesn't mean that it's true. Just calm down and don't believe everything that you're told or everything that you read. Someone else on here posted a question stating that she had heard that grapefruit causes an increase in cancer. Like I said, a lot of these "studies" are bunk.