Breast cancer risk 55+ years after irradiation for an enlarged thymus and its implications for early childhood medical irradiation today

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 48-58

  Adams, M Jacob ^a   Dozier, Ann ^a   Shore, Roy E ^c   Lipshultz, Steven E ^b   Schwartz, Ronald G ^a   Constine, Louis S ^a   Pearson, Thomas A ^a   Stovall, Marilyn ^d   Winters, Paul ^a   Fisher, Susan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARTIAL BODY RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SIBLING; THORAX; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 74549155691     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0520     Document Type: Article

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