Cardiac RT May Amplify Late Disease Risk in Pediatric Cancer Survivors

Receipt of radiotherapy to cardiac substructures appears to increase the risk of cardiac disease among adult survivors of childhood cancer even at low radiation doses, according to a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS) published in Journal of Clinical Oncology.

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