Thyroid cancer risk after thyroid examination with 131I: A population-based cohort study in Sweden

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 580-587

  Dickman, Paul W ^a   Holm, Lars Erik ^b   Lundell, Göran ^c   Boice Jr , John D ^d,e   Hall, Per ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Radiation Protection Authority   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

131I; Cohort study; Iodine radioisotopes; Radiation; Risk factors; Sweden; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; SWEDEN; THYROID CANCER; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID SCINTISCANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0043094089     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.11258     Document Type: Article

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