Two sisters had breast cancer at four years and I1 years after diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease. The affected breast tissues had received several hundred rads of scatter radiation during treatment of the lymphoma. Family history revealed breast cancer in a third sister and five other women in the pate
Bilateral breast cancer after cured Hodgkin's disease
โ Scribed by Norwood Anderson; Jacob Lokich
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 264 KB
- Volume
- 65
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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