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

Radiation from the images causes 5 percent of cancer cases, according to a new study. The doctor who made this grim discovery ...

Fact checked by Jennifer Klump Doctors have known that radiation exposure from computed tomography—also called a CT ...

A new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine has found that CT scans may be responsible for approximately 5% of annual cancer diagnoses ... grainy or unclear for diagnosis, allowing for ...

At the CT laboratory. Beautiful experienced female radiologist looking at the MRI scan images and putting a diagnosis while standing in the CT lab CT scans pose a greater cancer risk than ...

A commonly used computerized scan may slightly increase cancer risk over a person’s lifetime. That’s according to a new study ...

Researchers estimated that the use of CT scans in ... 5% of cancers diagnosed each year,” the researchers wrote. The most common projected cancers in adults were lung cancer (n=21,400), colon ...

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 ...

Local experts said patients should be aware of the radiation risks of CT scans but not shy away from the technology, which ...

Weigh the cancer ... diagnosis for efficient patient flow and management. Patients likewise expect timely and accurate diagnoses.” Doctors need to be more judicious in ordering CT scans, and ...