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Cancer risk from medical x-rays

The use of medical x-rays causes hundreds of extra cancers each year in the UK, according to researchers from Oxford University and Cancer Research UK, in a report in the Lancet. The researchers say that around 0.6% of total cancer risk may be the result of exposure to x-rays in hospitals.

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