Childhood thyroid cancers rise 10-fold in the Ukraine
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I-131 Dose Response for Incident Thyroid Cancers in Ukraine Related to the Chornobyl Accident
BACKGROUND Current knowledge about Chornobyl-related thyroid cancer risks comes from ecological studies based on grouped doses, case-control studies, and studies of prevalent cancers. OBJECTIVE To address this limitation, we evaluated the dose-response relationship for incident thyroid cancers using measurement-based individual iodine-131 (I-131) thyroid dose estimates in a prospective analyt...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.319.7203.145a