Special susceptibility of the child to certain radiation-induced cancers.
The carcinogenic effects of exposure to ionizing radiation vary markedly with age, as revealed by studies of Japanese atomic bomb survivors and of Marshall Islanders exposed to fallout from U.S. nuclear weapons tests in the South Pacific in 1954. An increase in cancers of adulthood after intrauterin...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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1995
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1518941/ |