[StephN]

Great to see more articles on this subject.
The thing that strikes me about getting people to recognize the danger, is that the test is so SHORT. You lie down on the table, get positioned, hold your breath a couple of times and then they help you off the table.

How could this be putting us in any danger?? This is a quick and easy test to see if I am OK or not. This is what we stage IV patients have to keep track of our tumors.
The longer we live, the more scans we have in the name of monitoring our disease.

I mentioned the idea of a "radiation" badge to a professional at my cancer center. One thing is that the patients would not be able to wear it in the machines. Since we are out of the presence of the machines the rest of our lives, the badge would only be able to measure the ambient radiation we contact in our daily lives. That is so minimal compared to the scans, that there would be no real value.

That person suggested that if we can get a consistent number for the radiation we are exposed to in the various tests from regular audits as suggested in that article, that can be kept track of and might actually become part of our medical record.

A.A. - you are in the medical records type work, so what do you think of this as a way to keep count, like they have our other labs and vitals charted?