[Study on radiation-induced malignant neoplasms].

: Nineteen patients with newly developed malignant neoplasms following radiotherapy are presented. The primary lesions of 6 patients were tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis, the primary lesions of the other 13 patients were malignant neoplasms. The radiation-induced malignant neoplasms of 15 patients were epithelial, only 4 patients were non-epithelial. The prognosis was not good. However, we think that radiation-induced malignant neoplasms are not highly radioresistant and that the benefits of radiotherapy for malignant neoplasms outweigh the risk of radiation-induced malignant neoplasms.