Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty A stock photo of a person undergoing a CT scan A recently published study has found that the radiation from CT scans could ...

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Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco medical school, has spent well over a decade researching the disquieting risk that one of modern medicine’s most ...

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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 ...

Too much radiation raises the risk of cancer. That risk is growing, because people in everyday situations are getting imaging tests far too often. Like the New Hampshire teen who was about to get a CT ...