About 7,587 people contract cancer each year in Japan due to diagnostic X-ray exposure, according to an estimate by researchers at the University of Oxford.
The researchers have estimated that 3.2 percent of people aged 75 and under diagnosed with cancer each year contracted it during diagnostic X-rays, which are used in conventional radiography and imaging techniques such as computerized tomography.
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