Radiation-induced thyroid cancer - What's new?

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 703-705

  Boice Jr , John D ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; IODINE 131; POTASSIUM IODIDE; TELLURIUM; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

BELARUS; CARCINOGENIC ACTIVITY; CELL KILLING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG HALF LIFE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; ENDEMIC GOITER; FALLOUT; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GAMMA RADIATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IODINE DEFICIENCY; IONIZING RADIATION; NUCLEAR REACTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THYROID CANCER; X RAY; AGE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; INFANT; NOTE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; THYROID GLAND; THYROID TUMOR; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; AGE FACTORS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; INFANT; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LINEAR MODELS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; POTASSIUM IODIDE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RUSSIA; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 20544470483     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/dji151     Document Type: Editorial

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