Breast cancer risk from low-dose exposures to ionizing radiation: results of parallel analysis of three exposed populations of women

Journal Article · Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1980 · J. Natl. Cancer Inst.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6664070

Land, C E ^[1]; Boice, Jr, J D; Shore, R E; Norman, J E; Tokunaga, M

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1. Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan

Breast cancer incidence data were analyzed from three populations of women exposed to ionizing radiation: survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs, patients in Massachusetts tuberculosis sanitoria who were exposed to multiple chest fluoroscopies, and patients treated by X-rays for acute postpartum mastitis in Rochester, New York. Parallel analyses by radiation dose, age at exposure, and time after exposure suggested that risk of radiation-induced cancer increased approximately linearly with increasing dose and was heavily dependent on age at exposure; however, the risk was otherwise remarkably similar among the three populations, at least for ages 10 to 40 years at exposure, and followed the same temporal pattern of occurrence as did breast cancer incidence in nonexposed women of similar ages.

• OSTI ID: 6664070
• Journal Information: J. Natl. Cancer Inst.; (United States), Vol. 65:2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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