which would translate to about 7,200 new cancer cases over the lives of those patients. One problem with the CT scan, she said, was its ubiquity. She noted a study done by a group called Choosing ...

Radiation from imaging could lead to lung, breast and other future cancers, with 10-fold increased risk for babies CT scans ...

A new study found that CT scans could eventually cause 5% of cancer cases in the U.S. each year. Here's what this news could ...

A new study has set off alarm bells, attributing the overuse of computed tomography – or CT – scans to around 5% of new ...

The overuse of CT scans could cause over 100,000 cases of cancer in the US – with almost 10,000 ... The risk to individuals is low and the benefits most often outweigh the risks, as long as the scan ...

What role does the overuse of medical imaging and CT scans play in cancer risk? Are there new technologies that make CT scans ...

Adults 50 to 59 were projected to have the greatest number of cancer diagnoses, with 10,400 cases for women ... Full-body and spine CT scans also pose greater risk because they scan in multiple ...

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 ...

"Our estimates put CT on par with other significant risk factors, such as alcohol consumption and excess body weight," she said. "Reducing the number of scans and reducing doses per scan would ...