An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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STEWART, Alice Mary

2 entries
  • 7782

Preliminary communication: Malignant disease in childhood and diagnostic irradiation in-utero.

Lancet, 2, 447, 1956.

Stewart was one of the earliest to study the effect of prenatal X-rays, later replaced by ultrasound. She found that the children of mothers who received these X-rays were almost twice as likely to develop leukemia or cancer as other children. With J.W. Webb, B.D. Giles, and D. Hewitt. Stewart's follow-up paper was "A survey of childhood malignancies," British Medical Journal, 2 (1958) 1495-1508., with J.W. Webb and D. Hewitt.

 



Subjects: ONCOLOGY & CANCER, ONCOLOGY & CANCER › Leukemia, TOXICOLOGY › Radiation Exposure, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
  • 7783

Radiation dose effects in relation to obstetric X-rays and childhood cancers.

Lancet, 295, 1185-1188, 1970.

In this study of ten million children Stewart and Kneale showed that obstetric X-rays significantly increased the rate of childhood leukemia and cancer.



Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › OBSTETRICS, ONCOLOGY & CANCER, ONCOLOGY & CANCER › Leukemia, TOXICOLOGY › Radiation Exposure