Childhood thyroid cancer in Belarus

Title: Childhood thyroid cancer in Belarus

Author: Demidchik, Yuri E. / Demidchik, Eugene P. / Saenko, Vladimir A. / Reiners, Christoph / Biko, Johannes / Mankovskaya, Svetlana V. / Yamashita, Shunichi

Reference: International Congress Series, 1299, p.32-38, Feb 2007

doi: 10.1016/j.ics.2006.09.005

Keywords: Pediatric thyroid cancer; Recurrence; Survival rate

Abstract: The retrospective analysis was performed to compare the clinical course of radiogenic and sporadic childhood thyroid cancer. The entire series included 752 patients aged less than 15 years at diagnosis. Of them, 686 (91.2%) individuals had radiation history including 681 (90.6%) exposed at the time of the Chernobyl disaster and 5 (0.7%) children were previously treated for malignant lymphoma with an external beam therapy. …

URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0531513106006157