A groundbreaking surgery in Udaipur removed a 17-centimeter spinal tumor from a 21-year-old woman, recognized as a record achievement. Udaipur, Rajasthan – In an extraordinary milestone for ...

Patients with lung cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, cancer with an unknown primary site, or renal cancer are at high risk for the development of SCC by metastatic tumor. Spinal cord ...

In this investigation, SODIQ OJUROUNGBE uncovers how the failure to maintain functional CT scan services is crippling emergency care and fuelling a wave of preventable deaths Emeka Onyeka (not ...

Interior Health is moving a bit more quickly through its CT scan waitlist, courtesy of a new system. In Kelowna and Kamloops, the health authority is starting to give waitlisted patients an option ...

This 2 minute video shows how you have a CT colonography. When you have the right amount of gas in your bowel, you have the CT scan. This is usually taken with you lying in 2 or 3 different positions.

CT scans can help show heart disease, blood clots, bone fractures, certain types of cancer, among other conditions. "A CT scan is an imaging test that helps healthcare providers detect diseases and ...

A Jersey brain tumour patient has said "processes weren't followed" after she experienced a delay in her diagnosis because she was not offered a CT scan. Sophie Reid, 36, was taken to Jersey ...

A chest X-ray delivers about as much radiation as one receives naturally from the environment over 10 days, but a CT scan can deliver hundreds of times that much, equivalent to two years of ...

In children, projected cancers were more likely to be associated with brain CT scans. Per scan, the cancer risk is highest for children exposed at younger ages, especially those under 1 year old ...

In 2023, there were an estimated 93 million CT exams carried out on 62 million people. The risk from a single scan is low—but not zero. And the younger the patient, the greater the risk.