Word: brenner
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...research team, led by Dr. David Brenner of Columbia University, estimates that of the 1.6 million children who get CAT scans to the head and abdomen each year, about 1,500 will eventually die from a cancer induced by the radiation of those scans. Children are especially vulnerable because their rapidly dividing cells are more susceptible to radiation damage and also because they will live long enough for even slow-growing cancers to take their toll. Perhaps the biggest risk factor, investigated by the second study, led by Dr. Lane Donnelly at Cincinnati's Children's Hospital, is that...