Publications challenging claims of cancers from diagnostic imaging
- No Increased Risk of Cancer from CT Scans, M. Doss, American Journal of Roentgenology, 2014;202:W410. Available at: http://www.ajronline.org/doi/full/10.2214/AJR.13.11525
- Linear No-Threshold Model May Not Be Appropriate for Estimating Cancer Risk from CT, M. Doss, Radiology 2014, 270, :307–308. http://pubs.rsna.org/doi/pdf/10.1148/radiol.13131661
- Conclusion of Increased Risk of Cataracts Associated with CT Scans of the Head May Not be Justified, M. Doss, American Journal of Roentgenology, 2014;202:W413-W. Available at: http://www.ajronline.org/doi/full/10.2214/AJR.13.11867
- Addition of diagnostic CT scan does not increase the cancer risk in patients undergoing SPECT studies, Mohan Doss, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 2014. Available at: http://nuclearmedicineandmolecularimaginggateway.net/ArticlePage.aspx?DOI=10.1007/s00259-014-2711-0
- Radiation doses from radiological imaging do not increase the risk of cancer. Letter to the editor regarding the article by Brenner: “What we know and what we don't know about cancer risks associated with radiation doses from radiological imaging", Mohan Doss, British Journal of Radiology, 2014;87:20140085. Available at: http://www.birpublications.org/doi/full/10.1259/bjr.20140085
- Radiation Dose Justification and Optimization Should Not be Applied to Medical Imaging in
Emergency Medicine - (Letter to the
Editor regarding "Sierzenski, et al. Applications of justification
and optimization in medical imaging: examples of clinical guidance for
computed tomography use in emergency medicine. Ann Emerg Med. Jan
2014;63(1):25-32.), Mohan Doss, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Accepted for
Publication, Mar 13, 2014.
- CT Radiation Dose Optimization is Not Advisable in View of Current Knowledge (Letter to the Editor regarding “R. Smith-Bindman and J.M. Boone. Introduction to the Special Issue: Radiation Dose Optimization-Improving the Safety of CT. J Am Coll Radiol. 2014 Mar;11(3):229-30.”, Mohan Doss, Journal of American College of Radiology, 2014 Jul;11(7):745-746. . Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1546144014001550
- Point/Counterpoint: Low-dose radiation is beneficial, not harmful, Mohan Doss, Mark P. Little, Colin G. Orton, Medical Physics, 41, 070601 (2014). Available at: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aapm/journal/medphys/41/7/10.1118/1.4881095
Online Comments in response to journal articles:
1. Carcinogenic Concerns Regarding CT Scans are Unwarranted, M Doss, Online Comment regarding "Questioning protocol., Randi Redmond Oster, JAMA Intern Med. 2014 May 1;174(5):667." http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1835362
2. CT Scans Are Not Dangerous, M Doss., Online Comment regarding "Coping with headaches., Katz MH., JAMA Intern Med. 2014 May 1;174(5):821-2.". Available at: http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1835343
