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To the Editor: DeAngelis, in her review article on brain tumors (Jan. 11 issue),¹ emphasizes that "irradiation of the cranium, even at low doses, can increase the incidence of meningiomas by a factor of 10 and the incidence of glial tumors by a factor of 3 to 7." The two articles cited to support this statement^2,3 deal with children treated with radiation. The exposure of the brain in the patients with tinea capitis was 100 to 200 rad, and in the patients with acute leukemia, the brain was exposed to 2400 rad.

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