Breast cancer risk after radiotherapy in infancy: A pooled analysis of two Swedish cohorts of 17,202 infants

Radiation Research

Volumn 151, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 626-632

  Lundell, Marie ^a   Mattsson, Anders ^a   Karlsson, Per ^b   Holmberg, Erik ^b   Gustafsson, Agnetha ^b   Holm, Lars Erik ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c Swedish Radiation Protection Authority   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIUM 226;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SKIN HEMANGIOMA; SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIOTHERAPY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032774278     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3580039     Document Type: Article

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