Researchers from Brighton (England), Cambridge (England) and Kuwait have demonstrated that thyroid cancer risk increases as the number of dental x-rays taken grows. The researchers report that the incidence rates of thyroid cancer have doubled from 1.4 per 100,000 in 1975 to 2.9 per 100,000 in 2006 in the UK. They stress that several factors are probably involved in the thyroid cancer increase, and that sensitive diagnostic techniques should not be considered to account for all of it. Further research is needed…

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