Cancer: relation of prenatal radiation to development of the disease in childhood.
Experimental evidence indicating a linear response and the absence of a threshold for the development of childhood cancer and leukemia at total doses below 1 roentgen is contained in recent studies of prenatal diagnostic x-ray exposure. Implications for the nature of the carcinogenic mechanism in the human organism are discussed, with emphasis on the possible effects of the ionizing radiation from iodine-131 and other short-lived isotopes.
D002273:Carcinogens; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007953:Leukemia, Radiation-Induced; D009369:Neoplasms; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D011297:Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects; D011832:Radiation Injuries; D011839:Radiation, Ionizing; D011868:Radioisotopes; D012106:Research
D002273:Carcinogens; D011868:Radioisotopes
LEUKEMIA, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURY