Nonradiation risk factors for thyroid cancer in the US radiologic technologists study

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 242-252

  Meinhold, Cari L ^a   Ron, Elaine ^a   Schonfeld, Sara J ^a   Alexander, Bruce H ^b   Freedman, D Michal ^a   Linet, Martha S ^a   Berrington De González, Amy ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Hormones; Motor activity; Prospective studies; Reproduction; Smoking; Thyroid diseases; Thyroid neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; BODY MASS; CANCER; DISEASE INCIDENCE; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH WORKER; HORMONE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BODY MASS; BREAST DISEASE; CANCER RISK; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGIST; REPRODUCTION; SMOKING; THYROID CANCER; THYROID DISEASE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 73949142289     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwp354     Document Type: Article

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