Thyroid cancer risk 40 + years after irradiation for an enlarged thymus: An update of the Hempelmann cohort

Radiation Research

Volumn 174, Issue 6 A, 2010, Pages 753-762

  Adams, Jacob ^a   Shore, Roy E ^b   Dozier, Ann ^a   Lipshultz, Steven E ^c   Schwartz, Ronald G ^a   Constine, Louis S ^a   Pearson, Thomas A ^a   Stovall, Marilyn ^d   Thevenet Morrison, Kelly ^a   Fisher, Susan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; GOITER; HUMAN; INFANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PARTIAL BODY RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RELIGION; SIBLING; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA; THYROID CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; THYMUS GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78649999084     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR2181.1     Document Type: Article

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