Comment by ErroneousBosh
6 days ago
> 0.126 to 0.63%
So, a just-about-measurable increase, if you pick and choose your values carefully?
You are not going to die from cancer caused by getting a PET scan. This will not happen.
You're going to die of heart disease or as a not-too-distant second in a car accident.
That data is for one scan, ever.
Continuous scanning for months would give a dose many orders of magnitude higher.