Breast Cancer and Other Second Neoplasms after Childhood Hodgkin's Disease

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Authors

Smita Bhatia · University of Minnesota

Leslie L. Robison · University of Minnesota

Odile Oberlin · Institut Gustave Roussy

Mark Greenberg · Great Ormond Street Hospital

Greta R. Bunin · Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Franca Fossati‐Bellani

Anna T. Meadows · Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Abstract

The risk of solid tumors, especially breast cancer, is high among women who were treated with radiation for childhood Hodgkin's disease. Systematic screening for breast cancer could be important in the health care of such women.

Topics & Keywords

Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 334, Issue 12, pp. 745-751

DOI: 10.1056/nejm199603213341201

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