Zoe Gardner-Lawson demanded the scan, which uncovered a 5-cm tumor on her bowel Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in Billboard and Reader's Digest. SWNS ...

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 ...

While these advanced imaging tools save lives by detecting injuries and illness, mounting evidence suggests they may come with long-term consequences that patients need to understand before agreeing ...

Computer tomography scans, or CT scans, are an invaluable tool for diagnosing cancer and other conditions. But in a cruel twist, the medical imaging technique may be more harmful than once thought, ...

The prevalent use of CT scans may account for 1 in 20 cancers annually, according to new research. The study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggests CT-related radiation is linked to ...

CT scans ‘routinely’ deliver up to three times the radiation they should, which can lead to 36,000 cases of cancer a year. “In the ninety million CT scans performed annually in the U.S., many patients ...

The Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) has a long history of health care litigation filed by incarcerated people or their families, but a new colon cancer screening program from the agency is ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) -A recent survey found that lung cancer screenings lag behind other types of screenings, such as breast or colon cancer. This is partly because people don’t know they need it and ...