Study: CT scans could up kids cancer risk – Elizabeth Cohen explains

From CNN medical producer John Bonifield:

CT scans expose children to radiation that could give them cancer, according to a review of children’s imaging data published Wednesday in the British medical journal Lancet.

The researchers estimate that for every 10,000 computed tomography scans performed on children aged 10 or younger, one additional child will get a brain tumor and another additional child will get leukemia within a decade of the first scan. These cancers wouldn’t otherwise be expected, even if none of the imaging was done.

Elizabeth Cohen explains this new study and whether your child should get a CT scan.

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