Three medical societies claim recent studies have overestimated the potential harms from lung cancer screening and may be deterring patients. Not everyone agrees.

Older adults are receiving a greater share of CT scans, prompting debate about radiation risk and repeat imaging. Learn more ...

Radiation therapy works by using high-energy X-rays to kill cancer cells. MSK offers precise radiation therapy that kills throat cancer cells with fewer side effects from radiatio ...

As a nonsmoker lung cancer hasn't been a concern of mine, but I recently heard it can affect people who have never smoked. If ...

Photon-counting computed tomography outperforms conventional CT in lung cancer management, according to a recent study.

Studies estimating cancer risk from CT radiation use data from different people exposed to different radiation (like atomic bomb survivors). The way these studies estimate CT radiation may not match ...

If you’ve undergone medical imaging, you may have had an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) or a CT (computed tomography) scan done. These diagnostic tools use different technologies to visualize ...

A new analysis estimates that more than 100,000 cancer cases per year could be caused by radiation from CT scans. In some cases, the information provided by a CT scan could also be obtained from other ...

Researchers said they have uncovered a novel sign of chronic stress and its damaging effects on the body by using an artificial intelligence algorithm to analyze common CT scans for what they describe ...

Doctors Are Sounding the Alarm on Overused CT Scans :warning: A new study from Yale reveals a troubling trend — the use of head CT scans has doubled since 2007, and it could be silently driving up ...

About 40% of cancers among Americans can be attributed to potentially modifiable factors such as smoking, drinking, obesity, and physical inactivity. If a widely reported study from earlier this year ...