Leukaemia and aplastic anaemia in patients irradiated for ankylosing spondylitis. 1957.
Reported here is a seminal study of leukaemia among patients who had been treated with x-rays for ankylosing spondylitis. The findings were first published in a Medical Research Council (MRC) report in 1957. The report is now published in a scientific journal for the first time, 50 years after it first appeared.
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Her Majesty's Stationary Office, London, UK.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000741:Anemia, Aplastic / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007953:Leukemia, Radiation-Induced / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000009:adverse effects; D013167:Spondylitis, Ankylosing / Q000532:radiotherapy*