[Dermatologic roentgen therapy and radiocarcinogenesis].

Late somatic effects of ionizing radiation can be divided into non-stochastic effects with relatively high threshold doses (cataract, fertility problems, chronic radiodermatitis, and radiogenic skin cancer) and non-threshold stochastic effects. Theoretical and epidemiologic aspects of radiocarcinogenesis and various clinical types of radiation-induced neoplasms (leukemia, thyroid cancer, breast cancer) and genetic effects are discussed with special reference to radiation protection measures.