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MRI instead of X-Ray
My name is Andy, I am the site Director for the Latham NY Upright MRI. I want to let everyone who has to get Scoliosis X-Rays that we are the first center in the world to have the ability to scan the spine from top to bottom and give your Doctor the same information they would get from the X-Ray and more because MRI also sees the soft tissue.
Please read this section of research from the National Cancer Institute that I have copied and pasted for you.
Scientists Find Link Between Pre-1970s Diagnostic X-rays for Scoliosis and Breast Cancer Mortality
Researchers have found that women with scoliosis, or abnormal curvature of the spine, who were exposed to multiple diagnostic X-rays during childhood and adolescence may be at increased risk of dying of breast cancer. The study appears in the Aug. 15, 2000, issue of the journal Spine*. Authors included scientists from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Md.; the Twin Cities Spine Center in Minneapolis, Minn.; the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas; Information Management Services in Silver Spring, Md.; and the U.S. Scoliosis Cohort Study Collaborators, a group of physicians from 14 orthopedic medical centers across the country.
The 5,466 women in the study, who received an average of 24.7 X-rays, were found to have a 70 percent higher risk of breast cancer than women in the general population. There were 77 breast cancer deaths among the patients, compared to 46 expected deaths based on U.S. mortality rates. Patients were younger than 20 years old when they were diagnosed with scoliosis between 1912 and 1965. The mean age for scoliosis diagnosis in this study was 10.6 years, and the average length of follow-up was 40.1 years. Follow-up was complete for 89 percent of patients.
We Can help to eliminate this problem
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Please read this section of research from the National Cancer Institute that I have copied and pasted for you.
Scientists Find Link Between Pre-1970s Diagnostic X-rays for Scoliosis and Breast Cancer Mortality
Researchers have found that women with scoliosis, or abnormal curvature of the spine, who were exposed to multiple diagnostic X-rays during childhood and adolescence may be at increased risk of dying of breast cancer. The study appears in the Aug. 15, 2000, issue of the journal Spine*. Authors included scientists from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Md.; the Twin Cities Spine Center in Minneapolis, Minn.; the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas; Information Management Services in Silver Spring, Md.; and the U.S. Scoliosis Cohort Study Collaborators, a group of physicians from 14 orthopedic medical centers across the country.
The 5,466 women in the study, who received an average of 24.7 X-rays, were found to have a 70 percent higher risk of breast cancer than women in the general population. There were 77 breast cancer deaths among the patients, compared to 46 expected deaths based on U.S. mortality rates. Patients were younger than 20 years old when they were diagnosed with scoliosis between 1912 and 1965. The mean age for scoliosis diagnosis in this study was 10.6 years, and the average length of follow-up was 40.1 years. Follow-up was complete for 89 percent of patients.
We Can help to eliminate this problem
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Permalink Reply by Wayne L on -
This makes sense for teenagers moreso than others. Teenagers have to get x-rays quite often after scoliosis is first diagnosed. In the end, it's a matter of cost. When the cost of an MRI comes down so much that it becomes an unnecessary risk to get an x-ray, we'll all be getting MRIs and x-rays will be an entry in the history books.
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Permalink Reply by Andy McCall on -
Here in Latham NY we are charging $300 for a complete MRI study
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