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Science 7 June 1963:
Vol. 140. no. 3571, pp. 1102 - 1104
DOI: 10.1126/science.140.3571.1102
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Cancer: Relation of Prenatal Radiation to Development of the Disease in Childhood

E. J. Sternglass 1

1 Westinghouse Research Laboratories, Pittsburgh 35, Pennsylvania

Experimental evidence indicating a linear response and the absence of a threshold for the development of childhood cancer and leukemia at total doses below 1 roentgen is contained in recent studies of prenatal diagnostic x-ray exposure. Implications for the nature of the carcinogenic mechanism in the human organism are discussed, with emphasis on the possible effects of the ionizing radiation from iodine-131 and other short-lived isotopes.


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