Question

nees in desnatin an arca a 34. With regard to your knowledge of radiation effects, truthfulness and the basic considerations with respect to providing information to patients discussed in your text how would you respond to a teenager (female) and her parents that are concemed about potential reproductive risks from a CT scan and bone scans needed to evaluate for osteosarcoma?

Answer 1

I will tell patient and her parents that it is high dose of these radiation that causes harmful effect on reproductive system like killing of 0va or sperms. But the radiation level which is used in these diagnostic test is low dose having no harmful effect on reproductive system even though if they are exposed directly. There are studies That have shown that there is no such effect in patients undergoing these radiodiagnostic procedures so they should not worry .