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

Journal Article · · J. Natl. Cancer Inst.; (United States)
OSTI ID:6664070
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  1. Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan
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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), Journal Name: J. Natl. Cancer Inst.; (United States) Vol. 65:2; ISSN JNCIA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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