Pediatric Hodgkin's disease survivors face increased breast cancer risk

Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 11:35 in Health & Medicine

Women who as children got radiation treatment for Hodgkin's disease are almost 40 times more likely than others to develop breast cancer, according to findings from five institutions, including the University of Florida.

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