Age distribution of childhood thyroid cancer patients in ukraine after chernobyl and in fukushima after the TEPCO-fukushima daiichi NPP accident

Thyroid

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1547-1548

  Tronko, Mykola D ^a   Saenko, Vladimir A ^b   Shpak, Victor M ^a   Bogdanova, Tetiana I ^a   Suzuki, Shinichi ^c   Yamashita, Shunichi ^b,c  

^a V P Komisarenko Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism of the Ukraine Academy of Medical Sciences   (Ukraine)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SCREENING; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; ECHOGRAPHY; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMAN; LETTER; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; POORLY DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CANCER; POPULATION SIZE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; SOLID TUMOR; THYROID CANCER; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; UKRAINE; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; ADOLESCENT; INFANT; JAPAN; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEWBORN; ONSET AGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE OF ONSET; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RISK FACTORS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; UKRAINE;

EID: 84911903229     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: 15579077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2014.0198     Document Type: Letter

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