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Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart, New York

Rofo. 1976 Dec;125(6):487-90. doi: 10.1055/s-0029-1230504.

[The supposed cancer risk from mammography. Opposition to the assertions (author's transl)].

RoFo : Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Rontgenstrahlen und der Nuklearmedizin

[Article in German]
H Oeser, P Koeppe, K Rach

PMID: 137843 DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1230504

Abstract

The view that exposure to diagnostic radiation presents a cancer risk to the female breast should be considered together with the fact that the major factor is ageing of the patient. This risk factor is hidden in experimental and statistical studies on cancer production by exongenous agents; for instance, in studies of radiation effects, it is inherent in the time taken. The assumption that mammography presents a cancer risk is unjustifiable and is denied.

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