Breast Cancer Mortality After Diagnostic Radiography

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Authors

Michele M. Doody · National Institutes of Health

John E. Lonstein · Twin Cities Spine Center

Marilyn Stovall · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

David Hacker · Information Management Services

Nickolas Luckyanov · National Institutes of Health

Charles E. Land · National Institutes of Health

Abstract

These data suggest that exposure to multiple diagnostic radiographic examinations during childhood and adolescence may increase the risk of breast cancer among women with scoliosis; however, potential confounding between radiation dose and severity of disease and thus with reproductive history may explain some of the increased risk observed.

Topics & Keywords

Radiation Dose and Imaging Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Cancer Risks and Factors

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: Spine

Volume 25, Issue 16, pp. 2052-2063

DOI: 10.1097/00007632-200008150-00009

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