It has been suggested that pediatric patients treated with spinal irradiation may have an elevated risk of
breast cancer. Among a cohort of 363 long-term survivors of a pediatric central nervous system tumor or
leukemia treated with spinal irradiation, there was little evidence of an increased breast cancer risk.
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