every time you get an xray it increases the change of getting cancer,
if you xray 100,000 you will kill some of them... or at least give them cancer
the same as air port xray machines they WILL kill people (all be it a very small %)
every time you are struck by a particle of ?irionising? radiation it *MIGHT* cause cancer the more particles that hit you the higher the chances....
That is a small FRACTION of a %, it aint donna kill 1 in a 100 (i hope)
[FnG]magnolia;19783407 said:Are you ... are you arguing with yourself?![]()
But even so you've got it the wrong way around, if someone were to have 100,000 x-rays it would increase the chance of them developing cancer, a single x-ray isn't any more likely to cause cancer than living in a concrete, brick or stone building for 4 monthsno, initially I say a small %, then I realise I am suggesting that several people per 100 that get an xray will get cancer... which is massively more than I ment, so i correct it to a fraction of a %.
(ration taken from the xkcd radiation levels, but they're roughly in scale)
DMPoole wades in with storey of his life and how he now works for the NHS so is an expert.
That's about the only treatment for it anyway, like a cracked rib, there's little that can be done to help the process other than pain management.I think I cracked my coccyx a while back, the hospital wouldn't xray due to the location and the amount of radiation required, not sure whether that was an excuse or the truth, it healed on it's own with tha aid of a lot of paracetomols and brufen.
Never want to go through that again
You horrible nasty piece of work.
How the hell am I an expert just because I have access to the system?
I thought you were Ok until that post and now you're just a small minded ****.
But even so you've got it the wrong way around, if someone were to have 100,000 x-rays it would increase the chance of them developing cancer, a single x-ray isn't any more likely to cause cancer than living in a concrete, brick or stone building for 4 months
(ration taken from the xkcd radiation levels, but they're roughly in scale)
Awwwww....... if OcUK had a like button.
edit:- Btw I didn't post this to have a go at you, was an observation of the majority of your posts, if my comment was incorrect the please ask a mod to delete it.
KaHn
correct me if I am wrong, however
a) radiation causes cancer by dammaging cells,
b) a cell must be dammaged in a very paticular way to become cancerous
c) the more cells that are dammaged by radiation the higher the chances one will be dammaged in such a way that it becomes canerous
and you get as much radiation from a single x-ray as you get from living in a concrete building for 4 months.
You would never be able to pinpoint an x-ray has having been the cause of someone getting cancer as they will have exposed themselves to much greater levels.
and you get as much radiation from a single x-ray as you get from living in a concrete building for 4 months.
new york -> LA = twice as much as a single x-ray, so trans-atlantic would be even moreDon't you also get more radiation from flyiing in an airplane?
I'm sure I heard one of the Radiologists tell me that.
you seemed to be citing it as a reason for hospitals not doing x-rays, it is not.I'm not arguying its a high % chance.
not being able to pin point does not mean it wrong though.