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Published in final edited form as: Radiat Res. 2016 Mar 29;185(4):366–374. doi: 10.1667/RR14276.1

TABLE 2.

Dose to the Lens (Gy) According to Type of Primary Cancer among Patients Receiving Radiotherapy

		Dose (Gy)

Cancer type	Number^a	Mean	Median	Minimum	Maximum
Leukemia	2,727	0.05	3.18	<0.001	30.6
Soft tissue sarcoma	593	0.58	6.53	<0.001	66.0
Central nervous system	943	0.14	4.54	0.022	43.8
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma	602	0.20	2.33	0.002	58.0
Neuroblastoma	386	0.28	1.58	0.002	57.2
Hodgkin lymphoma	1519	0.02	1.46	0.006	12.7
Bone cancer	348	0.24	0.94	<0.001	61.2
Kidney (Wilms’)	674	0.01	0.16	0.012	4.5
Total	7,792	0.06	2.76	<0.001	66.0

^a

Including 145 patients who first received radiation exposure after the cutoff date.