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

Rising heart attack cases among young adults have prompted a surge in cardiac CT scans, particularly after the deaths of well-known personalities. Cardiologists and radiologists are divided over ...

The safety of CT scans has long been debated —particularly since what we know about cancer risks of low to moderate radiation doses come primarily from long-term studies of Japanese atomic bomb ...

They can be life-saving but radiation from the scans also contributes to cancer risk. The authors of a new study estimate overuse of CT scans is increasing the U.S. cancer burden.

Medical imaging scans that create detailed images of the body’s internal structures are widely used in medicine. Doctors need them to detect and manage certain types of cancer, assess the extent of ...

Researchers looked back at 3,662 CT scans taken between 2013 and 2023 of mostly older men and women in the New York area who had both an abdominal scan (which captured part of the aorta) and a ...

And if current practices persist at these same utilization and radiation dose levels, the researchers believe, CT-associated cancer could eventually account for 5% of all new cancer diagnoses each ...