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A radiology expert, sensing that a single scan at initial years of life can develop risk of fatal cancer, is urging doctors to get a written consent from parents before ordering CT scans on children.

He is trying for it after stating the cancer developing chances get 70 times more by CT scan.

Radiology expert John de Campo states that the chances of developing a fatal cancer by excess use of CT scans are more in people who are up to the age of 20. It is because their cells divide faster and get damaged also easily.

According to the professor who is a faculty of medicine at Bond University, one in every 500 babies if exposed to CT scan would develop a fatal cancer later in life.

Professor de Campo said, "Patients and even doctors were largely unaware of the risks of CT scans, and seeking informed consent, the formal explanation and acknowledgement of risks, as commonly done before surgery, should become routine."

Source : TNM