Let's not relive the past: A review of cancer risk after diagnostic or therapeutic irradiation

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 739-744

  Ron, Elaine ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0036944193     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-002-0803-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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