Cancer risk in 680 000 people exposed to computed tomography scans in childhood or adolescence: data linkage study of 11 million Australians

Mathews, J.; Forsythe, A.; Brady, Zoe; Butler, Martin; Goergen, S.; Byrnes, G.; Giles, G.; B Wallace, Anthony; Anderson, P.; Guiver, Tenniel; McGale, P.; Cain, T.; Dowty, J.; Bickerstaffe, A.; Darby, S.

doi:10.1136/bmj.f2360

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Cancer risk in 680 000 people exposed to computed tomography scans in childhood or adolescence: data linkage study of 11 million Australians

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Authors:

J. Mathews

A. Forsythe

Zoe Brady

Abstract

Objective To assess the cancer risk in children and adolescents following exposure to low dose ionising radiation from diagnostic computed tomography (CT) scans. Design Population based, cohort, data linkage study in Australia. Cohort members 10.9 million people identified from Australian Medicare r...

Subject

Medicine

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