Childhood and Adolescent Thyroid Cancer in Fukushima after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident: 5 Years On

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 263-271

  Suzuki, S ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fukushima; Radiation exposure; Thyroid cancer; Thyroid cyst; Thyroid nodule; Thyroid ultrasound screening

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; COLLOID CYST; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; THYROID CANCER; TUMOR VOLUME; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CYSTS; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; JAPAN; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION DOSE; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

ADOLESCENT; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHILD; CYSTS; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 84959080810     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: 14332981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2015.12.027     Document Type: Article

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