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Spinal cord glioma following irradiation for Hodgkin's disease
Cancer
|April 15, 1980
Abstract:
A 21-year-old patient, after radiation therapy to the mediastinum for Hodgkin's disease, died six years later of a spinal cord glioma, believed to be caused by irradiation therapy. That the x-ray therapy provoked neoplastic changes seems likely, although it could be coincidental.

