Two reports in the December 14/28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine found that doses of radiation from the commonly performed procedure vary widely, appear higher than generally believed and may contribute to an estimated tens of …
Read Original Story: Studies Measure Cancer Risks From CT Scans – Consumer Affairs
US (ChattahBox) – The effects of CT scans on the human body have always been in dispute, but they have generally been considered safe for most. However, a new study done by the University of California San Francisco says that may not be the case. …
Read Original Story: CT Scans May Cause Cancer, Study Shows – ChattahBox
(NECN: Ally Donnelly, Boston, Mass.) – New research on CT scans shines new light on the risks posed by them. 83-year-old Joseph Dare prepares for a computerized tomography or CAT scan at Boston Medical Center. Researchers warn that the radiation …
Read Original Story: Studies show risks associated with CT scans – NECN
Overexposure to radiation-rich CT scans could lead to thousands of new cancer diagnoses in the United States in the coming years, according to a pair of medical studies released Tuesday. The two analyses, reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine, …
Read Original Story: Studies: CT scan overexposure triggers cancer risk – Newsday (subscription)
We’ve been writing for a while now about the risk of cancer associated with CT scans, an issue doctors have begun to pay more attention to as the use of CT scans has soared. A few papers published this afternoon in the Archives of …
Read Original Story: How Much Does a CT Scan Raise the Risk of Cancer? – Wall Street Journal (blog)
Widespread overuse of CT scans and variations in radiation doses caused by different machines and different operators are subjecting patients to high radiation doses that will lead to tens of thousands of new …
Read Original Story: CT scans, cancer risk linked – Chicago Tribune
The millions of CT scans performed each year in the US may be subjecting some patients to unnecessary cancer risk, and could lead to 29000 extra cancer cases each year, according to two studies published Tuesday in the Archives of Internal Medicine. …
Read Original Story: Study: CT Scan Overuse Could Lead to Cancer Deaths – NewsHour
The American College of Radiology today challenged the validity of two studies published this week in the Archives of Internal Medicine that link the overuse of CT scans with thousands of new cancer diagnoses and deaths. At the same time, …
Read Original Story: Radiologists Rap Study Linking CT Scans with Cancer – HealthLeaders Media
Though CT scans can be an invaluable tool for medical imaging, the doses of radiation patients are exposed to from these scans vary widely and are generally higher than previously thought, according to a study…
Read Original Story: Thousands of cancer cases from CT? – Chicago Sun-Times
Each year that today’s scanners are used, 14500 deaths could result, researchers say. When healthy people are exposed to the radiation, the imaging may create more problems than it solves. By Thomas H. Maugh II Widespread overuse of CT scans and …
Read Original Story: Overuse of CT scans will lead to new cancer deaths, a study shows – Los Angeles Times
