Radiation Therapy and Late Mortality From Second Sarcoma, Carcinoma, and Hematological Malignancies After a Solid Cancer in Childhood

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
8229869	International Journal of Radiation OncologyBiologyPhysics	2011	8 Pages	PDF

Abstract

Among patients who had received radiotherapy, only those having received the highest integral radiation dose actually had a higher risk of dying of a second carcinoma or sarcoma.

Keywords

Radiotherapy Childhood cancer Chemotherapy Long-term mortality Second malignant neoplasms

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Physics and Astronomy Radiation

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Radiation Therapy and Late Mortality From Second Sarcoma, Carcinoma, and Hematological Malignancies After a Solid Cancer in Childhood

Authors

Markhaba M.D., Catherine PhD., Mike M.D., Ph.D., Eric Ph.D., Abddedahir M.Sc., HélÃ¨ne M.D., David M.D., André Ph.D., Dimitri Ph.D., Odile M.D., Ibrahima Ph.D., Florent Ph.D.,