[Offsprings of preconceptionally irradiated parents. Final report of a longitudinal study 1976-1994 and recommendations for patients' advisory].

BACKGROUND Many young adults with cancer of good prognosis seek advice from their doctors, because they are concerned about their ability to have children and about potential hereditary diseases in the children conceived or fathered after cancer therapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS Results of repeated examinations of 61 children over a period of 20 years are reported. One of their parents had received radiotherapy for malignant disease (only three had...