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Radiation from medical scans has been linked to a higher risk of blood cancers in children. One in 10 blood cancers in children and adolescents—around 3,000 cancers in all—may be attributable to this ...

HOUSTON There are big changes ahead for hospitals and medical workers who perform Computed Tomography Scans, commonly known as CAT or CT scans. TheU.S. Food and Drug Administration unveiled a plan ...

Since August, patients who undergo CT scans at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center have gotten a little something extra: a record of the amount of radiation they were exposed to during ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A number of studies in the past year have raised concerns that Americans are exposed to too much radiation from CT scans, increasing their risk of cancer. A: CT, short for computed ...

Dr. Kiran Nandalur (left), a radiologist with Corewell Health and principal investigator of a new study showing that an MRI scan could predict radiation side effects for prostate cancer, reviews ...

MONDAY, Sept. 22, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Children might be at greater risk from blood cancers due to radiation exposure from medical imaging, a new study says. About 1 in every 10 cases of pediatric ...

ARLINGTON, Va., October 26, 2020 -- Adding the advanced PET radiotracer fluciclovine to conventional imaging to help guide radiation treatments for recurrent prostate cancer can improve disease-free ...

* CT scans involve much more radiation than X-rays * 70 million CT scans in U.S. in 2007 * Many CT scans deemed unnecessary By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Radiation from CT scans ...