Time to reconsider thyroid cancer screening in Fukushima

The Lancet

Volumn 383, Issue 9932, 2014, Pages 1883-1884

  Shibuya, Kenji ^a   Gilmour, Stuart ^a   Oshima, Akira ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; ECHOGRAPHY; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMAN; JAPAN; LETTER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SAMPLE SIZE; THYROID CANCER; TREATMENT PLANNING; ADOLESCENT; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT;

EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; JAPAN; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84901808544     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60909-0     Document Type: Letter

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