Thyroid cancer risk in Belarus among children and adolescents exposed to radioiodine after the Chornobyl accident

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 181-187

  Zablotska, L B ^a   Ron, E ^b   Rozhko, A V ^c   Hatch, M ^b   Polyanskaya, O N ^c   Brenner, A V ^b   Lubin, J ^b   Romanov, G N ^c   McConnell, R J ^d   O'Kane, P ^e   Evseenko, V V ^c   Drozdovitch, V V ^b   Luckyanov, N ^b   Minenko, V F ^f   Bouville, A ^b   Masyakin, V B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Republican Research Center for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology   (Belarus)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f BELARUSIAN MEDICAL ACADEMY OF POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Chernobyl nuclear accident; iodine deficiency; iodine radioisotopes; risk; thyroid neoplasms

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BELARUS; CANCER RISK; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GOITER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRRADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE; SCHOOL CHILD; THYROID CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RISK FACTORS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650892213     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6605967     Document Type: Article

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