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Risk of second cancers after radiotherapy for cervical cancer.
Expert review of anticancer therapy - 1 Jan 2006
Ohno Tatsuya, Kakinuma Shizuko, Kato Shingo, Tsujii Hirohiko, Shimada Yoshiya
Abstract excerpt
Radiotherapy for cervical cancer has both beneficial and detrimental effects: improvement of patient survival and potential induction of a second cancer among long-term survivors. Large epidemiological studies have demonstrated small, but significant, increases of second cancers with radiotherapy compared with the general population. The risk of second cancer has been characterized by organ sites, dose, time...
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