MedPage Today April 14, 2025
— Could be responsible for approximately 5% of cancers diagnosed each year
Key Takeaways
- A risk model suggested that CT exams in 2023 were projected to lead to over 100,000 future cancers over the lifetime of exposed patients.
- Previous projections published in 2009 had estimated that approximately 29,000 future cancers would result from routine CT exposures.
- If utilization and radiation doses remain unchanged in future decades, CT could be responsible for approximately 5% of cancers diagnosed annually.
At current utilization and radiation dose levels, CT exams in 2023 were projected to lead to over 100,000 future cancers over the lifetime of exposed patients, according to an updated risk model.
Among an estimated 62 million...
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