Fact checked by Nick Blackmer Computed tomography, or CT scans, could cause 5% of U.S. cancers each year, a new study ...

CT scans — those marvels of modern imaging that can peer inside our bodies in seconds — may also be contributing to a ...

A new study suggests the cumulative effects of ionizing radiation from CT scans may raise a person's lifetime risk of ...

CT scan radiation is expected to cause about 103,000 future cancers among the 61.5 million people who received a CT in 2023, ...

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

The team’s model predicted that approximately 103,000 cancers per year – around 5 percent of the 2 million new cancer ...

More Americans are receiving computed tomography (CT) scans than ever before, and while this technology can save lives, some ...

CT scans, or CAT scans, are widely used to get internal images of the body and diagnose dangerous medical conditions — but ...

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

Computed tomography (CT) scanning provides images of sections of the body (slices) using special X ray equipment and sophisticated computers. CT scans of internal organs, bone, soft tissue and blood ...