Cancer risk following radiotherapy for infertility or menstrual disorders

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 795-798

  Elaine, Ron ^a   Auvinen, Anssi ^a,b   Alfandary, Esther ^c   Stovall, Marilyn ^d   Modan, Baruch ^c   Werner, Avraham ^c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b STUK RADIATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Finland)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; INFERTILITY; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; OVARY; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; BRAIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; ISRAEL; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES; NEOPLASMS; OVARY; PITUITARY GLAND; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0032816944     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19990909)82:6<795::AID-IJC4>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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