"James Annan" <still_the_same_me@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Ryan Ginstrom" <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > I would like to see the source for this, please.
>
> I just found that on the lancet web site - it happens to be free to
> read (but you have to register). It was this news article that I saw
> it mentioned in first: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3442113.stm
> and it turns out that the 2.9% figure the BBC quote is actually for
> men only, for women it is 3.8% and 3.2% is the overall figure. That

Interesting, thanks. I personally sometimes wonder if the extra X-rays/CTs
are ways of earning some extra money by Japanese doctors in the presence of
mandated prices, sort of like prescribing way too much medicine.

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Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom