Integrating Research on Thyroid Cancer after Chernobyl — The Chernobyl Tissue Bank
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Chernobyl and thyroid cancer.
The most dramatic effect of exposure to fallout from the Chernobyl accident on physical health has been the increase in thyroid cancer. When this was first reported 1,2, there was scepticism in Europe and the US, as it was not thought plausible that exposure to radio-isotopes of iodine in fallout could lead to such an increase in thyroid cancer with such a short latency. This review will discus...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Oncology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0936-6555
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2011.01.503