Thyroid neoplasia risk is increased nearly 30 years after the Chernobyl accident

Autor: Victor Shpak, Galyna Terekhova, Valeriy Oliynyk, Vladimir Drozdovitch, Elizabeth K. Cahoon, Maureen Hatch, Mark P. Little, Tetiana Bogdanova, Valeriy Tereshchenko, Kiyohiko Mabuchi, Lyudmila Zurnadzhi, Mykola Tronko, Alina V. Brenner, Galyna Zamotayeva
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: International Journal of Cancer. 141:1585-1588
ISSN: 0020-7136
Popis: To evaluate risk of thyroid neoplasia nearly 30 years following exposure to radioactive iodine (I-131) from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, we conducted a fifth cycle of thyroid screening of the Ukrainian-American cohort during 2012-2015, following four previous screening cycles started in 1998. We identified 47 thyroid cancers (TC) and 33 follicular adenomas (FA) among 10,073 individuals who were
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