Holly Ponto didn't start running until she was in her 40s. Then a devastating diagnosis made her fear she would never run ...

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

A new study projects that CT scans performed in the US in 2023 could cause around 103,000 future cancers, potentially ...

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

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 ...

They can be life-saving but radiation from the scans also contributes to cancer risk. The authors of a new study estimate ...

“Given the large volume of CT use in the United States, many cancers could occur in the future if current practices don’t ...

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.

"CT can save lives, but its potential harms are often overlooked," said Dr. Rebecca Smith-Bindman, the study's lead author ...

The findings suggest that if current scanning rates continue, CT scans could be responsible for around 5% of all new cancer ...