A new study is projecting how radiation from computed tomography imaging​, or CT scans, could lead to future cancers.

CT scans, a widely used medical imaging technology to diagnose diseases, may be more harmful than previously thought, and ...

CT scan radiation is expected to cause about 103,000 future cancers among the 61.5 million people who received a CT in 2023, ...

They can be life-saving but radiation from the scans also contributes to cancer risk. The authors of a new study estimate ...

CT scans of the head, for example, expose patients to about the equivalence of one year of natural radiation. This is about 100 times the radiation dose from a chest X ray. Other CT examinations ...

Your next computed tomography, or CT, scan might be riskier than commonly assumed. A study out today calculates that CT scans are contributing to a substantially greater share of cancer cases than ...

ALTON The statistics surrounding the incidence rate of lung cancer nationally, state-wide, and locally can literally take your breath away.According to ...

In its simplest form, a CT scan is used only for the localization of abnormalities seen on a PET scan (non-diagnostic scan). The radiation dose from such a scan can be low (e.g. an effective dose of ...

The statistics surrounding the incidence rate of lung cancer – nationally, state-wide, and locally – can literally take your ...