A stock photo of a person undergoing a CT scan A recently published study has found that the radiation from CT scans could potentially lead to thousands of cancer diagnoses "These findings suggest ...
The American public has been concerned with radiation safety as far back as the tragic story of the “Radium Girls,” female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials ...
Older adults are receiving a greater share of CT scans, prompting debate about radiation risk and repeat imaging. Learn more ...
When planning for palliative radiotherapy, clinicians can forgo an additional CT scan on the same day as treatment and instead use a recent diagnostic CT scan, according to a results from a randomized ...
The prevalent use of CT scans may account for 1 in 20 cancers annually, according to new research. The study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggests CT-related radiation is linked to ...
Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco medical school, has spent well over a decade researching the disquieting risk that one of modern medicine’s most ...
Visual Abstract. Overall survival for patients treated with salvage radiotherapy: real world data from an entire country. A patient with biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy and no ...
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 risk of ...
More than a million European children undergo CT scans annually. While ionising radiation at moderate to high doses (>100 mGy to >1 Gy) is established as a risk factor for haematological malignancies, ...
CHICAGO, June 7 (Reuters) - A number of studies in the past year have raised concerns that Americans are exposed to too much radiation from CT scans, increasing their risk of cancer. [ID:nN01116048] A ...
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