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Is ionizing radiation a cause of breast cancer?

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Is ionizing radiation a cause of breast cancer?

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Yes. Studies of groups of people exposed to ionizing radiation have conclusively found that sufficiently large radiation doses can cause breast cancer. These groups include: 1) the female survivors of the atomic bombings in Japan during World War II; 2) women given radiation therapy to treat Hodgkin’s disease and both malignant and benign breast disease; 3) girls treated as infants or children for several non-malignant conditions such as enlarged thymus glands; and 4) young adolescents and women who received large numbers of diagnostic x-ray examinations to monitor tuberculosis treatments or to monitor the curvature of the spine during treatment for severe scoliosis. In fact, more is probably known about the patterns of breast cancer following radiation exposure than of any other cancer, including leukemia. What have all these studies shown about radiation-induced breast cancer? These studies have revealed a number of things about radiation-induced breast cancer. First, female breast t

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