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Does radiotherapy to the head, neck or upper thorax for childhood cancer increase the risk of later thyroid cancer?

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boxed-textSigurdson AJ et al. (2005) Primary thyroid cancer after a first tumour in childhood (the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study): a nested case–control study. Lancet 365: 2014–2023

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