Chest radiation to treat childhood cancer increases patients' risk of breast cancer

Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - 04:02 in Health & Medicine

Patients who received chest radiation for Wilms tumor, a rare childhood cancer, face an increased risk of developing breast cancer later in life due to their radiation exposure, scientists have found.

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