CT scans are a vital part of modern medicine. Found in every hospital and many clinics, they give doctors a fast and detailed ...

Computed tomography (CT) scans could soon account for 5 percent of all new cancer cases diagnosed annually if current ...

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

The most common types of cancers estimated to be a result of CT scans were lung cancer and colon cancer—two cancers that are ...

More than 100,000 future cancer cases were projected to result from the 93 million CT examinations performed in 2023, according to a study published April 14 in JAMA Internal Medicine.  Low-dose CT ...

"CT can save lives, but its potential harms are often overlooked," said Dr. Rebecca Smith-Bindman, the study's lead author ...

The radiation from this form of medical imaging may account for 5% of annual cancer diagnoses — a figure that puts it in line with alcohol and obesity as a risk factor.

The most common projected cancers in adults were lung cancer, colon cancer, leukemia, bladder cancer, and stomach cancer.

Radiation from CT scans may account for 5% of all cancers annually, according to a new study out of UC San Francisco that ...

About five million of the scans, which use X-rays to create detailed internal pictures of the body, are carried out each year ...

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