Time trends of incidence rates of thyroid cancer in Israel: What might explain the sharp increase

Thyroid

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1033-1040

  Lubina, Alexandra ^a   Cohen, Ohad ^a   Barchana, Micha ^b,c   Liphshiz, Irena ^b   Vered, Iris ^a,d   Sadetzki, Siegal ^d,e   Karasik, Avraham ^a,d  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE;

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IONIZING RADIATION; ISRAEL; JEW; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THYROID CANCER; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

AFRICA; ARABS; ASIA; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; JEWS; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; REGISTRIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOUTH AMERICA; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846430588     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2006.16.1033     Document Type: Article

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