We live in an age where medical technology can uncover what the naked eye can’t, and CT scans are a major part of that ...

Radiation from CT scans may cause as many as 5% of cancers diagnosed each year in the United States, research suggests.

Abdomen and pelvis CT scans contribute most to cancer risk (37% of projected cancers), with lung cancer being the most common ...

A standard CT scan delivers doses of ionizing radiation, which can vary widely depending on the type of scan. While one scan ...

A 48-year-old woman from Karwar, employed as a manual labourer, sought medical attention for persistent left-sided abdominal pain lasting two months. Initial evaluation in Karwar revealed a large mass ...

"A patient came in after what was described as a 'head injury.' We realized how bad it was after seeing a plastic grocery bag ...

Computed tomography (CT) scans are crucial in the diagnosis of liver cancer, providing detailed images for medical analysis. Despite the triumph of convolutional neural networks in medical image ...

“First, this is a theoretical association and has not been evidenced by human real case studies. Having said that, CT scans use ionising radiation, unlike other imaging techniques like X-rays, digital ...

Doctors have known that radiation exposure from computed tomography—also called a CT scan—comes with cancer risk. But the risk seems to be higher than previously expected, according to a new study ...

As for the most problematic type of CT scan, the largest number of cancers — 37,500 — were projected to arise from abdomen and pelvis imaging, which represented about a third of all CT ...

A new study reveals that abdominal CT scans play a significant role in diagnosing sarcopenia, a potentially reversible muscle-wasting condition that affects millions of older adults. Sarcopenia is ...