Child CT scans could lift cancer risk slightly

<p>LONDON (AP) — Children who get several CT scans have a somewhat aloft possibility of <span>brain cancer</span> and <span>leukemia</span> in after life, yet a risk is still tiny and substantially outweighed by a need to get a test, researchers reported.</p>
<p>The use of CT scans has risen fast given they were introduced 30 years ago. For children, they’re used to weigh head, neck or spine injuries or neurological disorders.</p>
<p><span>International researchers</span> complicated scarcely 180,000 patients underneath age 22 who had a CT indicate in British hospitals between 1985 and 2002. They followed those patients until 2008. They found 74 of them were diagnosed with leukemia while 135 had mind tumors.</p>
<p>The scientists didn’t magnitude a series of scans, that were mostly of a head, though looked during information measuring <span>radiation doses</span> from a scans. That’s since a volum...