{"id":236090,"date":"2010-01-27T08:41:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T13:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/health\/2010\/01\/27\/radiation-and-the-risks-of-high-tech-medicine\/"},"modified":"2010-01-27T08:41:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T13:41:07","slug":"radiation-and-the-risks-of-high-tech-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/236090","title":{"rendered":"Radiation and the Risks of High-Tech Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Radiation\"High-tech medical equipment can improve outcomes for patients — but it can also create new complications and safety risks.<\/p>\n

This morning’s New York Times<\/a> makes that point by examining Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy<\/a> — a high-tech system for treating cancer patients with radiation. <\/p>\n

IMRT can allow for more highly targeted radiation treatments, sparing healthy tissue. But the systems are complicated, and there have been cases where patients received harmful overdoses of radiation. What’s more, regulation of the devices and certification of the technicians who operate them are spotty, varying greatly from state to state.<\/p>\n

Radiation risks aren’t limited to IMRT. As we noted last year, hundreds of patients<\/a> suffered radiation doses because of a problem with the settings CT scanners. The problem didn’t come to light until a patient reported hair loss after getting a scan.<\/p>\n

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High-tech medical equipment can improve outcomes for patients — but it can also create new complications and safety risks. This morning’s New York Times makes that point by examining Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy — a high-tech system for treating cancer patients with radiation. IMRT can allow for more highly targeted radiation treatments, sparing healthy tissue. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}