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Nature Reviews Endocrinology 2, 68–69 (1 February 2006) | doi:10.1038/ncpendmet0079

Does radiotherapy dose correlate with incidence of thyroid cancer in survivors of childhood tumors?

Margaret A Tucker

Sigurdson 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 Synopsis Background Patients who have undergone upper-body radiotherapy for childhood cancer have an increased risk of developing primary thyroid cancer later in life.