Therapeutic radiation at a young age is linked to secondary thyroid cancer

We estimated the risk of thyroid cancer among 9170 patients who had survived 2 or more years after the diagnosis of a cancer in childhood. As compared with the general population, patients had a 53-fold increased risk (95% confidence interval, 34-80). Risk increased significantly with time since tre...

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Veröffentlicht in:Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.) Ill.), 1991-06, Vol.51 (11), p.2885-2888
Hauptverfasser: TUCKER, M. A, MORRIS JONES, P. H, MEADOWS, A. T, HOOVER, R. N, FRAUMENI, J. F, BOICE, J. D, ROBISON, L. L, STONE, B. J, STOVALL, M, JENKIN, R. D. T, LUBIN, J. H, BAUM, E. S, SIEGEL, S. E
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