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

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

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

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

UCSF researchers call for greater awareness of the potential risks associated with CT scans, emphasizing the need for ...

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

CT scans produce highly detailed X-ray images of the body’s ... need as many as four photos of a single area — and the location scanned, such as the head or the abdomen. To that data, they applied the ...

CT scans performed in the US in 2023 alone could eventually lead to over 100,000 extra cancer cases, a new study claims.

A new study projects that CT scans performed in the US in 2023 could cause around 103,000 future cancers, potentially ...

Researchers from UC San Francisco have announced a study that found computed tomography, or CT scans, may account for as much as 5% of all cancers annually. This is comparative to the cancer risk from ...

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