Chest X-Rays Raise Breast Cancer Risk in Susceptible Women - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today
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PARIS, June 26 — Diagnostic chest x-rays apparently bestow an increased risk of breast-cancer in women with mutations in BRCA susceptibility genes.
Any exposure to radiation from chest x-rays increased the women's risk by about 1.5-fold, reported Nadine Andrieu, Ph.D., and colleagues of the Institut Curie here, and other centers, in an early online release from the July 20 issue of Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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