Tumors of the Brain and Nervous System after Radiotherapy in Childhood
- 20 October 1988
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 319 (16), 1033-1039
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198810203191601
Abstract
We investigated the relation between radiotherapy in childhood for tinea capitis and the later development of tumors of the brain and nervous system among 10,834 patients treated between 1948 and 1960 in Israel. Benign and malignant tumors were identified from the pathology records of all Israeli hospitals and from Israeli national cancer and death registries. Doses of radiation to the neural tissue were retrospectively estimated for each patient (mean, 1.5 Gy).Keywords
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