New research reveals CT scans may cause 5% of U.S. cancer cases annually. Learn the risks, who's most vulnerable, and how to ...

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

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 ...

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

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Dr. Rebecca Smith-Bindman about her research indicating CT scans, which emit radiation, will cause some 100,000 cases of cancer annually.

Weigh the cancer risk from the scan’s radiation before making an appointment, a new study warns. CT scan radiation is expected to cause about 103,000 future cancers among the 61.5 million people ...

A new modeling study estimates that radiation from CT scans performed in the United States in 2023 could eventually cause ...

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