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Editorial
. 2020 Feb;10(2):541-548.
doi: 10.21037/qims.2020.01.05.

Assessing a recent South Korean cohort study of cancer risk following diagnostic radiation exposure at younger ages

Jasmine McBain-Miller  1 , Katrina J Scurrah  1 , John D Mathews  1
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Editorial

Assessing a recent South Korean cohort study of cancer risk following diagnostic radiation exposure at younger ages

Jasmine McBain-Miller et al. Quant Imaging Med Surg. 2020 Feb.
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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

Figures

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Figure 1
Rate of cancer diagnosis by attained age in the Australian dataset, using cancer diagnoses up to end of 2007.
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Figure 2
The causal and reverse causation pathways.
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Figure 3
A directed acyclic graph depicting how a cancer predisposing condition can confound the association between medical radiation exposure and cancer risk.
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Figure 4
Multiple CT exposures for an individual and their inclusion or exclusion in the study based on the interpretation of the “lag period”.
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