Does chernobyl accident have any effect on thyroid cancers in Turkey? A retrospective review of thyroid cancers from 1982 to 2006

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 325-330

  Zengi, Ayhan ^a,b   Karadeniz, Muammer ^a   Erdogan, Mehmet ^a   Ozgen, Ahmet Gökhan ^a   Saygili, Fusun ^a   Yilmaz, Candeger ^a   Kabalak, Taylan ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Chernobyl disaster; Retrospective review; Thyroid cancers

Indexed keywords

IODINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPPLEMENTATION; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TURKEY;

EID: 43449137908     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: 13484540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.K08E-007     Document Type: Article

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