A woman who dismissed blood in her stool as hemorrhoids was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer. Meagan Meadows, 24, ...

CT scans commonly taken to help doctors detect injury and disease may also come with an alarming risk - they may account for 5 percent of all cancer cases each year, California physicians said this ...

Computer tomography scans, or CT scans, are an invaluable tool for diagnosing cancer and other conditions. But in a cruel twist, the medical imaging technique may be more harmful than once thought, ...

Zoe Gardner-Lawson demanded the scan, which uncovered a 5-cm tumor on her bowel Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in Billboard and Reader's Digest. SWNS ...

More than 100,000 future cancer cases were projected to result from the 93 million CT examinations performed in 2023, according to a study published April 14 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Low-dose CT ...

Computed tomography (CT) examinations (known more commonly as a “CT scan” or “CAT scan”) incorporate a series of x-ray images taken of areas inside the body and use a computer to create a ...

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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 ...

Images of positive CT colonography (CTC) screening examination result in an asymptomatic 67-year-old man. Three-dimensional colon map from CTC (left image) shows the location of two sigmoid polyps ...

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 ...