Analysis of thyroid malignant pathologic findings identified during 3 rounds of screening (1997-2008) of a cohort of children and adolescents from Belarus exposed to radioiodines after the Chernobyl accident

Cancer

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 457-466

  Zablotska, Lydia B ^a,i   Nadyrov, Eldar A ^b   Rozhko, Alexander V ^b   Gong, Zhihong ^c   Polyanskaya, Olga N ^b   McConnell, Robert J ^d   O'Kane, Patrick ^e   Brenner, Alina V ^f   Little, Mark P ^f   Ostroumova, Evgenia ^f   Bouville, Andre ^f   Drozdovitch, Vladimir ^f   Minenko, Viktor ^g   Demidchik, Yuri ^h   Nerovnya, Alexander ^h   Yauseyenka, Vassilina ^b   Savasteeva, Irina ^b   Nikonovich, Sergey ^b   Mabuchi, Kiyohiko ^f   Hatch, Maureen ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Center for Radiation Medicine and Human Environment   (Belarus)

^c ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^e THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR PROBLEMS   (Belarus)

^h BELARUSIAN MEDICAL ACADEMY OF POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION   (Belarus)

ⁱ NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chernobyl nuclear accident; Latency; Morphology; Papillary carcinoma; Pathology; Radiation; Thyroid cancer; Thyroid neoplasms

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BELARUS; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NODULAR GOITER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID CANCER; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID SURGERY; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THYROID NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; REPUBLIC OF BELARUS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921523555     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.29073     Document Type: Article

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