Radiology · 1970 · 17 citations · 0 references
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A study was made of 6,560 males trained as radiological technologists by the U. S. Army during World War II. Mortality by cause for x-ray technologists was compared with that for men trained by the Army as pharmacy or medical laboratory technologists. No significant excess of leukemia existed among x-ray technologists; but 17 died of respiratory tract cancer relative to 4 among the controls. This difference, statistically significant at the 5% level, was due in part to a smaller than usual number of such deaths among the controls. Questionnaires revealed no evidence of radiation effect on sex ratio of children fathered by x-ray technologists.