Cancer risk from a single CT scan is low, but repeated exposure could increase the risk of radiation-induced cancer.

New research reveals CT scans may cause 5% of U.S. cancer cases annually. Learn the risks, who's most vulnerable, and how to ...

CT scan radiation is expected to cause about 103,000 future cancers among the 61.5 million people who received a CT in 2023, ...

Radiation from CT scans may account for 5% of all cancers annually, according to a new study out of UC San Francisco that ...

At current utilization and radiation dose levels, CT exams in 2023 were projected to lead to over 100,000 future cancers over ...

Abstract: Lung cancer screening with computed tomography (CT) scans can effectively improve the survival rate through the early detection of lung cancer, which typically identified in the form of ...

Fewer than 1 in 5 people eligible for lung cancer screening go through with a chest CT scan, according to research published April 2 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. But it’s not ...

BAL was performed immediately following CT, with three aliquots of 1 ml/kg normal saline instilled into ... neutrophilic inflammation at the initial scan was associated with subsequent progression of ...

Computed Tomography (CT) scans are widely used for lung cancer diagnosis ... squamous cell carcinoma, and normal. Extensive experiments, including ablation studies, 5-fold cross-validation, and ...

I have never smoked. A) The term “shadow” on the lung actually means an area that appears more dense on an X-ray or CT scan than normal lung tissue. Causes include infections, inflammation ...

referred for a chest CT to evaluate for pneumonia between September 2020 and December 2022. The participants underwent two scans: normal-dose CT (120 kVp and automatic current modulation ...