Recently, a patient came to the hospital where I work with a persistent cough. Their doctor had ordered a CT scan – a type of imaging that creates detailed cross-sectional pictures of the body's ...
Use of head CT scans in U.S. emergency departments has more than doubled over the past 15 years, a new study says. Nearly 16 million head CT scans were ordered by ERs in 2022, up from under 8 million ...
CT scans identified cancer in 13% of patients with non-specific symptoms, despite a fivefold increase in referrals from GPs from 2012 to 2019. Around 1 in 7 patients were diagnosed with cancer. This ...
Prior CT scans linked with increase in current pregnancy risks Pregnancy risks rise with number of prior CT scans, scans near ovaries Young women should be offered alternatives to CT when possible ...
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Mahama commissions PET-CT scan for cancer diagnosis and treatment
By Iddi Yire, GNA Accra, May 13, GNA – President John Dramani Mahama on Wednesday commissioned the state-of-the-art Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography (PET-CT) scan for cancer diagnosis ...
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