A CT scan of the abdomen can show the organs, blood vessels, and bones in your abdominal cavity. The multiple images provided by the scan can give your doctor many different views of your body.

Abdomen and pelvis CT scans contribute most to cancer risk (37% of projected cancers), with lung cancer being the most common ...

The most common types of cancers estimated to be a result of CT scans were lung cancer and colon cancer—two cancers that are becoming more common in younger people for reasons experts do not fully ...

Radiation from CT scans may cause as many as 5% of cancers diagnosed each year in the United States, research suggests.

Adults between the ages of 50 and 59 were projected to have the highest number of CT-related cancers, with 10,400 cases in women and 9,300 in men ... that CT scans of the abdomen and pelvis ...