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 ...

UCSF researchers call for greater awareness of the potential risks associated with CT scans, emphasizing the need for informed discussions between patients and doctors. A new study shows that CT scans ...

CT scans, or CAT scans, are widely used to get internal images of the body and diagnose dangerous medical conditions — but they could pose a hidden risk. A new study from the University of California ...

About 40% of cancers among Americans can be attributed to potentially modifiable factors such as smoking, drinking, obesity, and physical inactivity. If a widely reported study from earlier this year ...

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 for as ...

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 ...

(Gray News) - CT scans could be an “important cause of cancer” in the United States, according to a new study. According to the study by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, CT ...