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Cancer mortality in women after repeated fluoroscopic examination of the chest

Journal Article · · J. Natl. Cancer Inst.; (United States)
OSTI ID:6389513
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  1. National Cancer Inst., Bethesda, MD
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Among 1047 women fluoroscopically examined an average of 102 times during pneumothorax therapy for tuberculosis and followed up to 45 years, no increase in the total number of cancer deaths occurred when these women were compared to 717 women who received other treatments. However, elevated risks of mortality from stomach cancer, rectal cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, and leukemia were observed, but none was statistically significant and all were based on very small numbers of deaths. These increases were balanced by decreases of genital cancer, pancreatic cancer, lymphoma, and all other cancers. These findings indicated that the carcinogenic effect of multiple low-dose x-ray exposures was not greater than that currently assumed.
OSTI ID:
6389513
Journal Information:
J. Natl. Cancer Inst.; (United States), Journal Name: J. Natl. Cancer Inst.; (United States) Vol. 66:5; ISSN JNCIA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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550602 -- Medicine-- External Radiation in Diagnostics-- (1980-)
560151* -- Radiation Effects on Animals-- Man
62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
ANIMALS
BACTERIAL DISEASES
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS
BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS
BIOMEDICAL RADIOGRAPHY
BODY
CARCINOGENESIS
DELAYED RADIATION EFFECTS
DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
DISEASES
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ENDOCRINE GLANDS
FEMALE GENITALS
FEMALES
FLUOROSCOPY
GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
GLANDS
HEMIC DISEASES
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
INTESTINES
IONIZING RADIATIONS
IRRADIATION
LARGE INTESTINE
LEUKEMIA
LOW DOSE IRRADIATION
LUNGS
LYMPHOMAS
MAMMALS
MAMMARY GLANDS
MAN
MEDICINE
MORTALITY
NEOPLASMS
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
ORGANS
PANCREAS
PATHOGENESIS
PRIMATES
RADIATION EFFECTS
RADIATIONS
RADIOINDUCTION
RADIOLOGY
RECTUM
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
RISK ASSESSMENT
SIDE EFFECTS
STOMACH
THERAPY
TUBERCULOSIS
VERTEBRATES
WOMEN
X RADIATION