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Risk of Thyroid Cancer After Exposure to 131I in Childhood
After the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident in April 1986, the incidence of childhood thyroid cancer increased in contaminated areas. Most radiation exposure to the thyroid was from iodine isotopes, especially 131I. To evaluate thyroid cancer risk after exposure to radioactive iodine in childhood and to investigate environmental and host factors that may modify this risk, Cardis et al. (p. 724) carried out a population-based casecontrol study of thyroid cancer in Belarus and the Russian Federation. They found a strong doseresponse relationship between radiation dose to the thyroid received in childhood and thyroid cancer
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Recall Rate and Screen Detection of Breast Cancer
Premenopausal Sex Steroid Levels and Breast Cancer Risk
The Apoptosome-Mediated Pathway as a Therapeutic Target
Development and Use of Cancer Prediction Models