CT scans are a vital part of modern medicine. Found in every hospital and many clinics, they give doctors a fast and detailed ...

As for the most problematic type of CT scan, the largest number of cancers — 37,500 — were projected to arise from abdomen and pelvis imaging, which represented about a third of all CT ...

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

The risk from a single scan is low, but not zero. The younger the patient, the greater the risk. Children and teenagers are ...

CT (computed tomography ) scans are a vital part of modern medicine ... In adults, scans of the abdomen and pelvis are thought to contribute the most to future cancer cases.