Radiation thyroid cancer at high doses

Dose-response pattern for thyroid cancer following radiotherapy for childhood cancer. The graph is based on a pooled analysis including two cohort and two nested case-control studies including 16,757 patients.

Reproduced with permission from: Veiga LH, Lubin JH, Anderson H, et al. A pooled analysis of thyroid cancer incidence following radiotherapy for childhood cancer. Radiation Res 2012; 178: 365. Copyright © 2012 Radiation Research Society.

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