A hot potato: A new study from UC San Francisco is raising alarms about the widespread use of computed tomography (CT) scans in the United States, warning that the technology may be responsible ...

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Approximately 93 million computed tomography examinations, or CT scans, are performed on 62 million patients annually in the United States — but the radiation from that process can raise the ...

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A new study has set off alarm bells, attributing the overuse of computed tomography – or CT – scans to around 5% of new cancer diagnoses annually. Since 2007, this imaging technology has seen ...

Your next computed tomography, or CT, scan might be riskier than commonly assumed. A study out today calculates that CT scans are contributing to a substantially greater share of cancer cases than ...

Based on data from 93 million CT scans performed on 62 million people in 2023, the researchers estimated that the CT scans would lead to 103,000 future cancers. To put that in context, those ...

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"CT-associated cancers could eventually account for 5% of all new cancer diagnoses annually," a recently published study suggested Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She ...

Radiation from 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 ...

But adults also are at risk, since they are the most likely to get scans. “CT can save lives, but its potential harms are often overlooked,” said first author Rebecca Smith-Bindman ...