Balancing CT's Benefits with Radiation Risks

Link:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2832778

PDF: jamainternal_smithbindman_2025_oi_250011_1744156384.58838.pdf

Conclusion:

"In this study, approximately 5% of annual cancer diagnoses or 100, 000 cancers were projected to result from CT utilization in 2023. Despite public attention to the potential adverse effects, CT use has grown significantly in the United States since 2009. In 2023, 93 million CT examinations were performed in the United States; in 2007, the number was 68.7 million—a 35% increase incompletely explained by population growth.^(38) Justification of use and optimization of dose, including consideration of the need for multiphase examinations, are the tenets of CT imaging and must be applied uncompromisingly to mitigate potential harm"

What do we think of this study, esp the Rads people and other docs out there? Rather than do innumerable CT's in the ER for nonspecific headache or vague abdominal pain, maybe MRI would be the better modality?

Seems this has also been getting attention of the major news networks as well as it was trending in Google search.

The ACR also released a statement on this study as well.