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Radiation dose from cardiac catheterization procedures in young patients may not contribute to increased cancer risk

Author: Mohan Doss

Published in: European Journal of Epidemiology | Issue 4/2018

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I am writing regarding the article by Harbron et al. [1], in which the authors reported on their study of cancer incidence in children and young adults who had undergone X-ray guided cardiac catheterization procedures. They concluded that these patients had significantly increased standardized incidence ratio (SIR) for cancers in comparison to equivalent UK-wide population, and that when transplant patients were excluded, there was no significantly increased cancer risk. They then suggested that in addition to immune-suppression, higher radiation doses may be contributing to the increased cancer risk observed in the transplant patients. …

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Title: Radiation dose from cardiac catheterization procedures in young patients may not contribute to increased cancer risk
Author: Mohan Doss
Publication date: 01-04-2018
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: European Journal of Epidemiology / Issue 4/2018
Print ISSN: 0393-2990
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7284
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-018-0379-7

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