Breast cancer following spinal irradiation for a childhood cancer: A report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.
retrospective_cohort · Level III
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.radonc.2015.09.016 and PMC identifier 4679449.
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Abstract
It has been suggested that pediatric patients treated with spinal irradiation may have an elevated risk of breast cancer. Among a cohort of 363 long-term survivors of a pediatric central nervous system tumor or leukemia treated with spinal irradiation, there was little evidence of an increased breast cancer risk.
Medical subject headings
- Breast Neoplasms
- Central Nervous System Neoplasms
- Leukemia
- Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced
- Neoplasms, Second Primary