health.wa.gov.au Background Cross-sectional studies implicate neutrophilic inflammation and pulmonary infection as risk factors for early structural lung disease in infants and young children with ...

A new study is projecting how radiation from computed tomography imaging​, or CT scans, could lead to future cancers.

The most common projected cancers in adults were lung cancer, colon cancer, leukemia, bladder cancer, and stomach cancer.

A recently published study has found that the radiation ... CT in adults, reflecting 37 500 of 103 000 cancers (37%) and 30 million of 93 million CT examinations (32%), followed by chest CT ...

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

The study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggests CT-related radiation is linked to even higher rates of cancer than previously thought. The 93 million CT scans performed in 2023 are ...

Radiation from CT scans may account for 5% of all cancers annually, according to a new study out of UC San Francisco that cautions against overusing and overdosing CTs. The danger is greatest for ...

Radiation from imaging could lead to lung, breast and other future cancers, with 10-fold increased risk for babies. CT scans may account for 5% of all cancers annually, according to a new study ...