Radiation-Induced Tumors

Abstract

The relation between radiotherapy to the head and neck for tinea capitis childhood and the later development of tumors of the brain and nervous system have been investigated in 10,834 patients treated between 1948 and 1960 in Israel and the results evaluated at the Radiation Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD.

Keywords

• radiotherapy
• neural tumors
• radiation-induced tumors