Efficiency of radio-iodine-therapy for patients suffering from thyroid cancer with metastases to the lungs and mediastinum

Author: N.V. Podolkhova

Reference: Dissertation, candidate of medical sciences, Obninsk, 2007

Keywords: oncologic disease

Abstract: For people affected by the accident of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, living in areas where there were no large-scale dosimetry studies, link of the growth of cancer of the thyroid gland to radiation must be set by the presence of characteristic features described by ourselves: Increase of incidence among children and adults after the completion of the minimum latency (~ 5-6 years), aggression of tendency of childhood cancers, the lack of growth in oncologic diseases of thyroid in children born after the collapse of iodine radionuclides (1987 and later) …

URL: http://www.dissercat.com/content/effektivnost-radioidoterapii-u-bolnykh-rakom-shchitovidnoi-zhelezy-s-metastazami-v-legkie-i-

The management of cancer in the older adolescent

Title: The management of cancer in the older adolescent

Author: Albritton, K. / Bleyer, W.A.

Reference: European Journal of Cancer, 39 (18), p.2584-2599, Dec 2003

doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2003.09.013

Keywords: Cancer; Adolescents; Young adults

Abstract: Cancer in adolescents 15–19 years of age occurs at nearly twice the rate observed in 5- to 14-year-olds, but as of yet they have no explicit organisation for research and care, such as that structured for younger paediatric patients. Adolescents with cancer must be recognised as a subgroup of oncology patients with specific characteristics and needs requiring dedicated interest and management. The need is made most evident as outcome data indicates that adolescents are lagging behind in survival gains made in recent decades by both children and adults with cancer. Improvements in the overall survival, quality of care and quality of survival of adolescents with cancer will only occur by surmounting the challenges, discussed in this review, unique to this group of patients.

…health standpoint of cancer control, and by adjustment…Radiation-induced cancer may occur in adolescents…childhood. Rates of thyroid cancer in children and adolescents…Slavic countries since the Chernobyl accident in 1986 [12…

URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959804903008098

Thyroid cancer in children and young adults in the North of England. Is increasing incidence related to the Chernobyl accident?

Title: Thyroid cancer in children and young adults in the North of England. Is increasing incidence related to the Chernobyl accident?

Author: Cotterill, S.J. / Pearce, M.S. / Parker, L.

Reference: European Journal of Cancer, 37 (8), p.1020-1026, May 2001

doi: 10.1016/S0959-8049(00)00449-4

Keywords: Thyroid neoplasms; Childhood cancer; Young adults; Iodine radioisotopes; Nuclear accidents

Abstract: Population-based data on thyroid carcinomas was obtained from the Northern Region Young Person’s Malignant Disease Registry to analyse the incidence of thyroid cancers in young people (<25 years) in the North of England for the period 1968 and 1997 and to assess if changes in incidence were consistent with the spatial and temporal distribution of the fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear accident. We compared incidence rates for differentiated (papillary or follicular) thyroid carcinomas 1968–1986 with those for 1987–1997. …These temporal and spatial changes in incidence are consistent with a causal association with the Chernobyl accident although a greater effect in the younger rather than the older age group would have been anticipated. However, factors including improvements in ascertainment and earlier detection of tumours may also have contributed to the increasing incidence. …

URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959804900004494