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Thyroid neoplasia in children.
Current opinion in pediatrics - 1 Aug 1997
Zimmerman D
Abstract excerpt
In 1995, the incidence of childhood thyroid cancer in England and Wales was only 0.5 cases per million children per year. Papillary cancers in younger children were histologically distinct from tumors in older individuals. The incidence of thyroid cancer in the vicinity of Chernobyl increased by 62 times within 5 years of the nuclear explosion. Mutations of the RET protooncogene (a growth factor receptor) occur...
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