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 week.
Radiation from imaging could lead to deadly lung, breast and other cancers, doctors at the University of California-San Francisco said. In 2023 alone, between three and four times more cancers were predicted to result from CTs performed than in previous assessments.
