 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | I have to admit that I chuckle a little bit when they put that lead apron on me after being exposed to almost 70 Gy of ionizing radiation - but then it is the correct protocol for "As Low As Resaonably Acheiveable (ALARA principle).
I might mention also that with the old film dental x-rays sometimes I had to have them repeated because of anomolies, motion srtifacts, or film processing issues, etc. so that has to factor into radiation exposure as well. My dentist updated to digital xrays a while back and the image quality is superb.
Film x-rays are all but a dead technology - much like 8 tracks.
With the exception of my annual chest x-ray, all of my other follow-up scans are MRI's.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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