The relationship of thyroid cancer with radiation exposure from nuclear weapon testing in the Marshall Islands

Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 99-107

  Takahashi, Tatsuya ^a   Schoemaker, Minouk J ^b   Trott, Klaus R ^c   Simon, Steven L ^d   Fujimori, Keisei ^e   Nakashima, Noriaki ^e   Fukao, Akira ^a   Saito, Hiroshi ^f  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c Gray Cancer Institute   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bikini Atoll; Marshall Islands; Radiation exposure; Radioactive fallout; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOMIC WARFARE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; THYROID GLAND; THYROID TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MICRONESIA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR WARFARE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0038659282     PISSN: 09175040     EISSN: 13499092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2188/jea.13.99     Document Type: Article

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