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Incidence of leukemia in survivors of the atom bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

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American Journal of Medicine, 13, 311-321. 1952 CE.

Leukemia was the first cancer to be linked with radiation exposure in atomic bomb survivors.

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Entry Number#7764
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