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Table 2 Practical example of alarmistic and ineffective communication

From: Italian inter-society expert panel position on radiological exposure in Neonatal Intensive Care Units

Question

Answer

Are there some risks?

Theoretical of neoplasia. There are no absolute certainties.

How much the risk is?

Very small (in theory)

If he/she will develop a tumour after this exposition?

We will never know if it has come for this examination or for another reason