Thyroid cancer characteristics in the population surrounding three mile island

Laryngoscope

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1415-1421

  Goyal, Neerav ^a,c   Camacho, Fabian ^a,b,c   Mangano, Joseph ^c   Goldenberg, David ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Radiation and Public Health Project   (United States)

Author keywords

ionizing radiation; nuclear power plant; papillary thyroid carcinoma; Pennsylvania Cancer Registry; Three Mile Island; Thyroid cancer; thyroid carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; BIRTHPLACE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; THYROID CANCER; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID PARAFOLLICULAR CELL; THYROID SURGERY; UNITED STATES;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PENNSYLVANIA; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; THYROID NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861829081     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.23314     Document Type: Review

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