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Incidence of intracranial meningiomas in Nagasaki atomic-bomb survivors

  1. Naoki Sadamori1,*,
  2. Shobu Shibata1,
  3. Mariko Mine2,
  4. Hisaya Miyazaki3,
  5. Hitoshi Miyake4,
  6. Masaki Kurihara4,
  7. Masao Tomonaga1,
  8. Ichiro Sekine1,
  9. Yutaka Okumura1

Article first published online: 6 DEC 1998

DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19960729)67:3<318::AID-IJC2>3.0.CO;2-U

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International Journal of Cancer

International Journal of Cancer

Volume 67, Issue 3, pages 318–322, 29 July 1996

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Sadamori, N., Shibata, S., Mine, M., Miyazaki, H., Miyake, H., Kurihara, M., Tomonaga, M., Sekine, I. and Okumura, Y. (1996), Incidence of intracranial meningiomas in Nagasaki atomic-bomb survivors. International Journal of Cancer, 67: 318–322. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19960729)67:3<318::AID-IJC2>3.0.CO;2-U

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  1. 1

    Departments of Internal Medicine, Pathology and Radiation Biophysics, Atomic-Disease Institute, Nagasaki 852, Japan

  2. 2

    Department of Neurosurgery, Scientific Data Center for Atomic-Bomb Disaster, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Nagasaki 852, Japan

  3. 3

    Department of Neurosurgery, Miyazaki Hospital, Isahaya 854, Japan

  4. 4

    Department of Neurosurgery, Juzenkai Hospital, Nagasaki 850, Japan

*Department of Internal Medicine, Atomic Disease Institute, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, 12-4 Sakamoto 1-chome, Nagasaki 852, Japan. Fax: (81) 0958-49-7113

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  1. Issue published online: 6 DEC 1998
  2. Article first published online: 6 DEC 1998
  3. Manuscript Revised: 9 APR 1996
  4. Manuscript Received: 19 JAN 1996

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Abstract

Among the Nagasaki atomic-bomb survivors registered at the Scientific Data Center for Atomic-Bomb Disaster, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, 45 cases of surgically treated intracranial meningioma were collected from 6 hospitals with departments of neurosurgery in or near Nagasaki City during the period from 1973 to 1992. All 45 patients were over 40 years of age at the time of diagnosis. Subsequently, the 45 cases were statistically analyzed in relationship to the estimated distance from the hypocenter by age, gender, intracranial location, histology and latent period. The analysis showed a high correlation between incidence of meningiomas and distance from the hypocenter. The incidence among Nagasaki atomic-bomb survivors over 40 years of age, especially in those proximally exposed, appears to be increasing, in inverse proportion to the exposure distance, since 1981, 36 years after the explosion of the atomic bomb. © 1996 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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