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The Carcinogenic Risk in Radiation Medicine

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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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  1. TUM Clinic for Radio-Oncologie; Cancer Institute, University College London, London, UK

    Klaus-Rüdiger Trott

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  1. Institute for Earth System Preservation, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany

    Peter A. Wilderer

  2. Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany

    Ortwin Renn

  3. Bavarian State Ministry of the Environment and Consumer Protection, Munich, Germany

    Martin Grambow

  4. Klinik für Strahlentherapie, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Michael Molls

  5. Chair of Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Klaus Mainzer

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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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