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Chornobyl Accident and Subsequent Thyroid Cancer
Children and adolescents exposed to radioactive iodine have an increased risk of thyroid cancer. To quantify this risk, Tronko et al. (p. 897) analyzed data from the first screening round of the first cohort study of individuals who were under age 18 when exposed to fallout from the 1986 Chornobyl accident. A cohort of 32,385 individuals who lived in highly contaminated areas were invited for thyroid screening in 19982000. Among the 13,127 individuals who were screened, 45 cases of thyroid cancer were found. Individual thyroid dose estimates were available
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