Twenty years' experience with post-Chernobyl thyroid cancer

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1061-1073

  Williams, Dillwyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chernobyl; genotype phenotype correlation; latency; radiation; thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; IODINE; IODINE 131; NEPTUNIUM; PROTEIN PATCHED; PROTEIN PATCHED 1; PROTEIN PATCHED 2; PROTEIN PATCHED 3; PROTEIN RET; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RADIOISOTOPE; RAS PROTEIN; STRONTIUM 89; STRONTIUM 90; TELLURIUM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XENON 133;

AGE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE MUTATION; GERM CELL; HEREDITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IODINE DEFICIENCY; LEUKEMIA; LUNG METASTASIS; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POINT MUTATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; THYROID CANCER; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; UKRAINE;

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 56849088483     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2008.09.020     Document Type: Review

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