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U.S. Radiologic Technologists Study

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Research Findings

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	Mortality Studies All Causes Breast Cancer Circulatory System
	Cancer Incidence Studies All Cancers Breast Cancer Thyroid Cancer Lung Cancer Leukemia, Lymphoma, Multiple Myeloma Melanoma Non-melanoma Skin Cancer
	Genetic Studies Breast Cancer Thyroid Cancer
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Important Research Findings

Cancer Incidence Studies - Lung Cancer

Lung cancer risk among U.S. radiologic technologists, 1983-1998 (2006 )
	We evaluated lung cancer risk in relation to employment characteristics among radiologic technologists who completed the baseline survey in the mid-1980s. With 287 lung cancer cases identified, smoking-adjusted lung cancer risk was not related to year began working as a radiologic technologist or number of years worked in any time period. Risks were increased in technologists who held patients for x-rays and those who allowed others to take practice x-rays on them, but did not increase significantly with increasing number of times these practices were employed.
	[Abstract] [PubMed]


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