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Breast cancer at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1Hasbrouck Laboratory, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003.
Medical Hypotheses
|March 1, 1990
Abstract:
A calculation is made of the incidence of breast cancer at Hiroshima and Nagasaki using the dosimetry of Straume and Dobson. Gamma rays cause a mutation in a critical gene. Using a two hit theory, an estimate of the number of target cells and a time period of 24 years, an estimate of the probability of carcinogenesis is obtained which is in good agreement with observation.