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Currently some medical imaging facilities are promoting an alternate use of computed tomography (CT), also called computerized axial tomography (CAT) scanning. This use sometimes is referred to as whole-body CT scanning or whole-body CT screening, marketed as a preventive or proactive healthcare measure to healthy individuals who have no symptoms or suspicion of disease.
At this time FDA knows of no data demonstrating that whole-body CT screening is effective in detecting any particular disease early enough for the disease to be managed, treated, or cured and advantageously spare a person at least some of the detriment associated with serious illness or premature death. Any such presumed benefit of whole-body CT screening is currently uncertain, and such benefit may not be great enough to offset the potential harm such screening could cause.
Public health agencies and many national medical and professional societies -- including the American College of Radiology, the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, the Health Physics Society, and the American Medical Association -- do not recommend CT screening.
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