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ALTON The statistics surrounding the incidence rate of lung cancer nationally, state-wide, and locally can literally take your breath away.According to ...
CT scans performed in the US in 2023 alone could eventually lead to over 100,000 extra cancer cases, a new study claims.
The most common types of cancers estimated to be a result of CT scans were lung cancer and colon cancer—two cancers that are ...
A modeling study estimates that just over 100,000 cancers in the US are predicted to result from radiation from the 93 ...
CT scans may account for 5% of all cancers annually, according to a new study out of UC San Francisco that cautions against overusing and overdosing CTs.   The danger is greatest for infants, followed ...
A new study is projecting how radiation from computed tomography imaging​, or CT scans, could lead to future cancers.
About five million of the scans, which use X-rays to create detailed internal pictures of the body, are carried out each year ...
The NHS carries out around five million CT scans a year for reasons such as assessing internal injuries after an accident and ...
At current utilization and radiation dose levels, CT exams in 2023 were projected to lead to over 100,000 future cancers over ...
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 ...
CT scan warning after doctors raise serious concerns about cancer risk - Physicians say infants and children are the most at ...
"CT-associated cancers could eventually account for 5% of all new cancer diagnoses annually," a recently published study ...