10 Year Experience of a National Breast Screening Programme Following Radiotherapy for Hodgkin Lymphoma in South East Wales
E Gallop-Evans, C Jordan, K Gower-Thomas, N Evans, P Young · Klinische Pädiatrie · 2014 · Heft 03
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In 2003, the UK Department of Health initiated a recall and breast screening programme for women who received radiotherapy as treatment for HL. Velindre Cancer Centre in SE Wales (population 1.5 million) identified 300 female HL patients treated with RT through a case record search. Of these 100 had received RT to the mediastinum and/or axilla at age < 36 years. 7 patients had already died (3 lymphoma, 1 breast cancer, 1 treatment toxicity, 2 unknown). 83 patients treated with RT between 1968 – 2003 were traced and contacted. 3 patients were alive with breast cancer, and 1 with breast and thyroid cancer. Since 2…