Subclinical thyroid disease after radiation therapy detected by radionuclide scanning

Title: Subclinical thyroid disease after radiation therapy detected by radionuclide scanning

Author: Sandhu, Ajay / Constine, Louis S / O’Mara, Robert E / Hinkle, Andrea / Muhs, Ann G / Woolf, Paul D

Reference: International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, 48 (1), p.181-188, Aug 2000
doi: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)00592-7

Keywords: Thyroid cancer; Cancer screening; Thyroid scanning; Second malignant neoplasm (SMN)

Abstract: …months from diagnosis. Cancer mortality was 4% in…Patients who died of cancer had a median delay of…Early identification of cancer may also be important…16–18) on the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident…increase in the incidence of thyroid cancers in children…

URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360301600005927