My oral surgeon never liked to do CTs unless he thought something was wrong. He relied on visual and scope.

My lung dr and pancreas dr, however, both run me through the CT once a year. Since I've now been diagnosed with early stage triple negative breast cancer that my breast surgeon thinks might be caused by skatter radiation from the H&N cancer, I'm wondering if all these xtra CT scans might have contributed to it also. I'm certain they didn't help.

CT scans do expose you to lots of radiation. I forget the numbers but they are available somewhere. Maybe Gary will pop in and post on this.

As for me, I'm going to try to avoid them from now on in if I can.

Take care,
Eileen