Overuse of CT scans will lead to new cancer deaths, a study shows
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - 01:35
in Health & Medicine
Each year that today's scanners are used, 14,500 deaths could result, researchers say. When healthy people are exposed to the radiation, the imaging may create more problems than it solves. Widespread overuse of CT scans and variations in radiation doses caused by different machines -- operated by technicians following an array of procedures -- are subjecting patients to high radiation doses that will...