Should We Fear A Wave of Cancers After the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Seyed Mohammad Javad Mortazavi¹, Seyed Alireza Mortazavi², James S Welsh^{3

4}, Lembit Sihver^{5

6

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Affiliations

¹ Ionizing and Non-ionizing Radiation Protection Research Center (INIRPRC), Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
² College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, University of Glascow, Glasgow, GB.
³ Department of Radiation Oncology Edward Hines Jr VA Hospital Hines, Illinois. United States.
⁴ Department of Radiation Oncology, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, United States.
⁵ Department of Radiation Physics, Technische Universität Wien, Atominstitut, 1040 Vienna, Austria.
⁶ Department of Physics, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA.
⁷ Department of Radiation Dosimetry, Nuclear Physics Institute (NPI) of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), 18000 Prague, Czech Republic.

Editorial

Seyed Mohammad Javad Mortazavi et al. J Biomed Phys Eng. 2024.

. 2024 Dec 1;14(6):517-518.

doi: 10.31661/jbpe.v0i0.2310-1679. eCollection 2024 Dec.

Seyed Mohammad Javad Mortazavi¹, Seyed Alireza Mortazavi², James S Welsh^{3

4}, Lembit Sihver^{5

6

7}

¹ Ionizing and Non-ionizing Radiation Protection Research Center (INIRPRC), Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
² College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, University of Glascow, Glasgow, GB.
³ Department of Radiation Oncology Edward Hines Jr VA Hospital Hines, Illinois. United States.
⁴ Department of Radiation Oncology, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, United States.
⁵ Department of Radiation Physics, Technische Universität Wien, Atominstitut, 1040 Vienna, Austria.
⁶ Department of Physics, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA.
⁷ Department of Radiation Dosimetry, Nuclear Physics Institute (NPI) of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), 18000 Prague, Czech Republic.

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