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Your readers should be aware that the increased fatal cancer risk posed by annual whole-body CT scans, although still quite high, is in fact almost five times lower than that stated in this article, which says that annual scans from age 45 to 75 would increase a person’s lifetime risk of dying from cancer by 1.9 percent. By my calculation, current risk is 48 to 60 cancer deaths for every 240 people, so a 1.9