Quantitative Methods 2017

Risk of esophageal cancer following breast cancer according to radiotherapy dose Design Nested case–control study of esophageal cancer among 289 748 ≥5-year survivors of female breast cancer from five population-based cancer registries (252 cases, 488 individually matched controls), with individualized radiation dosimetry and information abstracted from medical records.

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z: radiation dose in Gy β: excess OR per Gy

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