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. 2021 Jul 9;97(1):365–369. doi: 10.1038/s41390-021-01634-z

Table 2.

Association between parents’ exposure to ionizing radiation and child’s neoplasms.

		Neuroblastoma^a	Leukemia	Brain tumor
Maternal exposure		Number (/100k)	Number (/100k)	Number (/100k)
No	90,384 (97.7%)	12 (13.3)	8 (8.9)	3 (3.3)
Yes	2142 (2.3%)	3^b (140.1)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)
		Neuroblastoma	Leukemia	Brain tumor
Paternal exposure		Number (/100k)	Number (/100k)	Number (/100k)
No	43,325 (96.8%)	7 (16.2)	3 (6.9)	3 (6.9)
Yes	1446 (3.2%)	0 (0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)

/100k per 100,000 children.

^ap = 0.005.

^bTwo were concurrently exposed to both anticancer and anesthetic drugs.