Researchers at McGill University Health Center (MUHC) and the Jewish General Hospital found that patients exposed to low-dose ionizing radiation from cardiac imaging and therapeutic procedures after acute myocardial infarction may be at increased risk of cancer.
“Using an administrative database, we selected a cohort of patients who had an acute myocardial infarction between April 1996 and March 2006 and no history of cancer. We documented all cardiac imaging and therapeutic procedures involving low-dose ionizing radiation,” writes Dr. Louise Pilote, co-author of the study and researcher in epidemiology at the Research Institute of the MUHC and director of the Division of Internal Medicine at the MUHC. The findings were recently published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
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Researchers at McGill University Health Center (MUHC) and the Jewish General Hospital found that patients exposed to low-dose ionizing radiation from cardiac imaging and therapeutic procedures after acute myocardial infarction may be at increased risk of cancer.
“Using an administrative database, we selected a cohort of patients who had an acute myocardial infarction between April 1996 and March 2006 and no history of cancer. We documented all cardiac imaging and therapeutic procedures involving low-dose ionizing radiation,” writes Dr. Louise Pilote, co-author of the study and researcher in epidemiology at the Research Institute of the MUHC and director of the Division of Internal Medicine at the MUHC. The findings were recently published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
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