Cancer Mortality After Nasopharyngeal Radium Irradiation in The Netherlands: a Cohort Study
Background: Nasopharyngeal radium irradiation (NRI) was used widely from 1940 through 1970 to treat otitis serosa in children and barotrauma in airmen and submariners. We assessed whether NRI-exposed individuals were at higher risk for cancer-related deaths than were nonexposed individuals. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of all-cause and cancer-related mortality in 5358 NRI-exposed subjects and in 5265 frequency-matched nonexposed subjects, who as children were treated at nine ear, nose, and throat clinics in The Netherlands from 1945 through 1981. We recorded personal and... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | TEXT |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2001 |
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Oxford University Press
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Schlagwörter: | REPORTS |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28764279 |
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Link(s) : | http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/93/13/1021 |