Medical Exposure to Radiation and Thyroid Cancer

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 244-250

  Schonfeld, S J ^a   Lee, C ^a   Berrington de Gonzalez A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography scans; Diagnostic radiology; Medical radiation; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FLUOROSCOPY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; THYROID CANCER; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; X IRRADIATION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIATION, IONIZING; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UKRAINE;

EID: 79955046957     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2011.01.159     Document Type: Article

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