Is ionizing radiation responsible for the increasing incidence of thyroid cancer?

Cancer

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1626-1628

  Nikiforov, Yuri E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID CANCER; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; X RAY;

CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION, IONIZING; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77950232947     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24889     Document Type: Editorial

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