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Fewer than ten years after the discovery of Roentgen rays, in 1903, the first radiation-induced cancer was diagnosed in a Roentgen technologist.
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Trott, KR. (2018). The Carcinogenic Risk in Radiation Medicine. In: Wilderer, P., Renn, O., Grambow, M., Molls, M., Mainzer, K. (eds) Sustainable Risk Management. Strategies for Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66233-6_13
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