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A CT scan is an important medical procedure for diagnosing disease, planning treatment, and for follow up. While this large and well-run study doesn’t prove a direct cause between a CT scan and blood cancer risk, researchers found for every 10,000 children who have a CT scan, there were 1-2 extra cases of blood cancer in the 12 years following the examination.

Blood cancer is the UK’s fifth most common cancer, and the UK’s third largest cancer killer and the key message to anyone who has been diagnosed with blood cancer is this: it is not your fault. Risk factors are not the same as causes and there are various risk factors for blood cancer that all interlink, with things like your age, sex and ethnicity playing an important role too.

We must keep studying how we can limit radiation exposure in those seeking diagnoses, as this could help prevent cases of blood cancer, potentially saving lives.