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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2006 98(9):642; doi:10.1093/jnci/djj166
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press.

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RESPONSE: Re: Risk of Thyroid Cancer After Exposure to 131I in Childhood

John D. Boice, Jr.

Affiliation of author: International Epidemiology Institute, Rockville, MD, and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN

Correspondence to: John D. Boice, Jr., ScD, International Epidemiology Institute, 1455 Research Blvd., Ste. 550, Rockville, MD 20850 (e-mail: john.boice@vanderbilt.edu).

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The contribution of 129I to thyroid dose compared with that of 131I released during the Chernobyl accident in 1986 and with the background radiation from natural sources is minor because of the long physical half-life (15.7 million years) of 129I and its short retention time in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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