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Breast cancer after radiation exposure in childhood
R Jhaveri1, D K Brief, V Schweitzer
1Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, NJ 07112.
New Jersey Medicine : the Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey
|March 1, 1993
Abstract:
Reports in the literature link radiation in childhood to some form of breast cancer in later life. The authors present a report on the carcinogenic effects of chemotherapy and radiation on the pubescent breast of a 12-year-old female treated for Wilms' tumor of the left kidney.