The Latent Interval for Thyroid Cancer Following Irradiation

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Abstract
The present study, since it contains no unirradiated cancer cases and no irradiated patients in whom cancer did not develop, cannot add anything to the evidence that irradiation causes thyroid cancer nor to the estimation of a dose-response curve for that effect. It should be useful, however, in analysis of any series of subjects exposed to radiation when it is desired to know the proportion of the eventual total number of thyroid cancers which might be expected to appear in any given period of follow-up, or the relative probability of carcinogenesis for each one of a series of multiple exposures.