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 largest number of cancers in adults would come from CTs of the abdomen and pelvis. In children, they came from CTs of the head. open image in gallery CT scans are commonly used in lung and ...

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 ...

The types of CT scans linked to the greatest number of cancers were abdomen and pelvis CT scans. The study's authors—led by epidemiology and biostatistics researchers at the University of ...

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