Tag: Jennifer Yeh

  • Campus & Community

    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 to an analysis of studies… In the second study on lifespan, Jennifer Yeh, a research fellow at Harvard School of Public Health, developed a mathematical…

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  • Health

    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, according to a study by Harvard researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Harvard School of Public Health. Depending on the type of cancer, the…

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