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Cost of full body CT scan may be greater than that - it would likely put you in Hiroshima-survivor radiation dose range.

Edit: did some reading. The risk is surprisingly low. For a 45 year old a single whole body scan has a mortality risk of 0.08%, and if the same person had one annually thereafter till 75, its a 1.9% lifetime risk. David, Brennee and Ellison in Radiology, 2004.




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