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Large Cancer Risk Behind CT Scans

  • September 01, 2004

Ever wondered how your body might feel if you survived a nuclear bomb attack? If you are so inclined, just ask a friend you know who decided on his or her own to have a full-body computed tomography (CT) scan, a trend I've heard about for a while through non-stop radio commercials. (This trends is particularly prominent in this country, where Americans make up a growing proportion of the 65 million or so CT scans performed each year.) But I bet all those commercials never took the...