New evidence for brain cancer risk after a single paediatric CT scan

Affiliations

¹ Biology and Environmental Chemistry Division, Sustainable System Research Laboratory, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Tokyo 201-8511, Japan. Electronic address: hamada-n@criepi.denken.or.jp.
² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, USA.

Comment

Nobuyuki Hamada et al. Lancet Oncol. 2023 Jan.

. 2023 Jan;24(1):2-3.

doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(22)00696-9. Epub 2022 Dec 6.

¹ Biology and Environmental Chemistry Division, Sustainable System Research Laboratory, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Tokyo 201-8511, Japan. Electronic address: hamada-n@criepi.denken.or.jp.
² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

We declare no competing interests.

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