Tag: Jennifer Yeh

Nation & World
Radiation use may raise adult cancer risk

NEW YORK — Women’s risk of developing breast cancer may increase as much as 20-fold if they were treated with chest radiation for malignancies as children or young adults, according…

April 7, 2010

1 minute
Nation & World
Childhood cancer survivors may face shortened lifespan, study reveals

Although more children today are surviving cancer than ever before, young patients successfully treated in the 1970s and 80s may live a decade less, on average, than the general population,…

April 6, 2010

5 minutes