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Radiation exposure in early life and breast cancer

Ionizing radiations including x-ray used in medical diagnostics, mammogram screenings, air port whole body scanning, and cancer treatment are recognized by the U.S. National Toxicology Program as cancer-causing agents.

Cancer News: Early radiation exposure raises breast cancer risk Jan 11, 2010 (foodconsumer.org) — Exposure to radiotherapy or radiation-based diagnostics like computed tomography (CT scans) in early childhood increases breast cancer risk in adulthood, a new study in the Jan 2010 issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention……

Adams MJ and colleagues from University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry found women who were treated by radiation were 200 percent more likely to develop breast cancer than those who did not receive radiation.

Higher doses of radiation were linked to high risk of breast cancer.

The researchers concluded that “at radiation doses between those received by the breast from chest CT and cancer therapy during early childhood, breast cancer incidence rates remain elevated >50 years after exposure.”

They wrote “This implies that increased breast cancer risk will remain a lifelong concern in females treated during childhood with currently reduced radiotherapy doses and for infants receiving multiple chest CTs.”

John Gofman, Ph.D. M.D. a distinguished nuclear physician, had reported much earlier that 75 percent of women with breast cancer were exposed to either diagnostic imaging, test or radiation therapy.

Ionizing radiations including x-ray used in medical diagnostics, mammogram screenings, air port whole body scanning, and cancer treatment are recognized by the U.S. National Toxicology Program as cancer-causing agents.

foodconsumer.org – Cancer News: Early radiation exposure raises breast cancer risk

January 13, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1 | antinuclear, nuclear, radioactive