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

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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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The synopsis was written by Petra Roberts, Associate Editor, Nature Clinical Practice. MA Tucker is supported by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH and the National Cancer Institute.

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