The Risk of Breast Cancer after Irradiation of the Thymus in Infancy
- 9 November 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 321 (19) , 1281-1284
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198911093211901
Abstract
It is well established that exposure to ionizing radiation during or after puberty increases a woman's risk for breast cancer, but it is less clear whether exposure to ionizing radiation very early in life is also carcinogenic. We studied the incidence of breast cancer prospectively in a cohort of 1201 women who received x-ray treatment in infancy for an enlarged thymus gland and in their 2469 nonirradiated sisters.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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