Chemotherapy and Thyroid Cancer Risk: A Report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

2012125 citationsJournal Articlebronze Open Access

Authors

Lene H. S. Veiga · Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Parveen Bhatti · United States Department of Health and Human Services

Cécile M. Ronckers · United States Department of Health and Human Services

Alice J. Sigurdson · United States Department of Health and Human Services

Marilyn Stovall · Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Susan A. Smith · United States Department of Health and Human Services

Abstract

Our study adds to the evidence for chemotherapy agent-specific increased risks of thyroid cancer, which to date, were mainly thought to be related to prior radiotherapy.

Topics & Keywords

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention

Volume 21, Issue 1, pp. 92-101

DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-11-0576

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