Common Medical Scan Linked to Startling Number of Cancer Cases

There's a new research study warning the potential danger of CT scans, especially in younger patients.

According to the Institute of Cancer Research of London, the overuse of CT scans could cause over 100,000 cases of cancer in the U.S., with almost 10,000 cases in children. The new modeling study, published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine, the high number of CT scans carried out in the U.S. in 2023 could cause 5 percent of all cancers in the country.