Radiation-induced breast cancer

Uchida, K.; Hachiya, K.; Sakurai, K.

Gan no Rinsho. Japan Journal of Cancer Clinics 30(2): 170-173

1984


ISSN/ISBN: 0021-4949
PMID: 6708305
Document Number: 239461
A 24-year-old woman with radiation-induced breast cancer is reported. At 9 years of age she had received 4,000 R irradiation to her chest to treat an eosinophilic granuloma of the rib. Fifteen years later, she suffered from breast cancer. We suggest that the irradiation-induced the breast cancer.

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