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First reports on harmful effects

of radiation

1902:

radiation-induced skin cancer

reported

1911:

radiation-induced leukemia

described

1920s:

bone cancer

in radium dial painters

1930s:

liver cancer and leukemia

due to

Thorotrast administration

1940s: excess

leukemia

in the first radiologists