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 ...

According to Dr Mutua, a PET scan can detect cancer in lymph nodes and organs that appear normal on a chest CT scan. “Since PET scans cover a larger area of the body, from the skull to the ...

The process exposes the body to a much heavier dose of radiation than a normal X-ray – about 10 millisieverts ... accounting ...

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

Radiation from CT scans may account for 5% of all cancers annually, according to a new study out of UC San Francisco that ...

Low-dose CT screening in a high-risk population detected lung cancer in 2.0% of participants ... Some participants were unable to return for scans due to travel restrictions or pandemic-related ...

The radiation from this form of medical imaging may account for 5% of annual cancer diagnoses — a figure that puts it in line with alcohol and obesity as a risk factor.