The relationship of thyroid cancer in the people of the Marshall Islands to potential exposure to radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing
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T. Takahashi, M.J. Schoemaker, K.R. Trott, S.L. Simon, K. Fujimori, N. Nakashima, H. Ohtomo, M. Watanabe, S. Satomi, H. Saito Nagasaki University School of Medicine, 1-12-4 Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK St. Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London EC1 6BQ, UK National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC 20418, USA Tohoku University School of Medicine, Seiryo-Machi 1-1 Aobaku, Sendai 980-8574, Japan
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تاریخ انتشار 2000