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Important Research Findings
| Cancer incidence in the U.S. Radiologic Technologists Health Study, 1983-1998.
(2003
) | | | We compared the number of cancers among US radiologic technologists that occurred between 1983 and1998 to the number of cancers that we expected based on the general US population. Nearly all of the cancer sites examined showed risks about what would be expected in the general population. Some cancer types, such as lung, rectum and oral cavity cancers were significantly lower than expected in both male and female technologists. Some cancer types, such as breast cancer in women, and melanoma and thyroid cancer in both men and women, were slightly higher than expected. It may be that these elevated risks are related to occupation or it could be that radiologic technologists, who are more aware of the importance of screening for cancer than the general public and have better access to healthcare, tend to have these types of cancers detected earlier. This would cause the appearance of increased risk, but only because the general public might not be screened as often.
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