Authors' reply

The Lancet

Volumn 380, Issue 9855, 2012, Pages 1736-1737

  Pearce, Mark S ^a   Salotti, Jane A ^a   Little, Mark P ^b   McHugh, Kieran ^c   Lee, Choonsik ^b   Kim, Kwang Pyo ^d   Howe, Nicola L ^a   Ronckers, Cecile M ^b,e   Rajaraman, Preetha ^b   Craft, Alan W ^a   Parker, Louise ^f   De González, Amy Berrington ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^e Dutch Childhood Oncology Group Longterm effects after childhood cancer   (Netherlands)

^f DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN;

ACCURACY; ACUTE MEGAKARYOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; DOWN SYNDROME; LETTER; LEUKEMIA; NEUROFI BROMATOSIS TYPE 1; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

EID: 84869078658     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(12)61984-9     Document Type: Letter

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