Late health effects of childhood nasopharyngeal radium irradiation: Nonmelanoma skin cancers, benign tumors, and hormonal disorders

Pediatric Research

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 850-858

  Ronckers, Cécile M ^a,b   Land, Charles E ^b   Hayes, Richard B ^b   Verduijn, Pieter G ^a   Stovall, Marilyn ^c   Van Leeuwen, Flora E ^d  

^a Reinaert Kliniek   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

^d NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; GAMMA IRRADIATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; SKIN CANCER; AGED; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BODY HEIGHT; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HYPOPHYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNX; NETHERLANDS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SKIN TUMOR; THYROID DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BODY HEIGHT; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNX; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NETHERLANDS; PITUITARY GLAND; RADIUM; REPRODUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; THYROID DISEASES;

EID: 85047683763     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-200212000-00007     Document Type: Article

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