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Key Publications: Studies of Ionizing Radiation and Thyroid
Cancer in Children
The following is a list of titles and authors of papers we
have collected that address thyroid cancer in children. A large
portion of the papers were presented at a the workshop
"Treatment of Thyroid Cancer in Childhood," September
10-11, 1992, at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
- Pediatric thyroid cancer after the Chernobyl disaster.
Pathomorphologic study of 84 cases (1991-1992) from the Republic
of Belarus. Nikiforov, Y. Gnepp, D.R. Cancer.
74:748-766; 1994.
- Papillary Thyroid Cancer in Children - Zimmerman,
D.; Hay, I.; Bergstralh, E. In: (Ed, J. Robbins)
Proceedings of a Workshop on Treatment of Thyroid Cancer
in Childhood, September 10-11, at the National Institutes
of Health, Bethesda (MD). Bethesda: NIH (1992).
- Pathology of Pediatric Thyroid Cancer - LiVolsi,
V.A. In: (Ed, J. Robbins) Proceedings of a Workshop on Treatment
of Thyroid Cancer in Childhood, September 10-11, at the
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda (MD). Bethesda:
NIH (1992).
- Radiation-induced Thyroid Cancer in Children -
Viswanathan, K.; Gierlowski, T.C.; Schneider, A.B. In:
(Ed, J. Robbins) Proceedings of a Workshop on Treatment
of Thyroid Cancer in Childhood, September 10-11, at the National
Institutes of Health, Bethesda (MD). Bethesda: NIH
(1992).
- Natural History of Childhood Thyroid Neoplasms -
Rallison, M.L. In: (Ed, J. Robbins) Proceedings of a Workshop
on Treatment of Thyroid Cancer in Childhood, September
10-11, at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
(MD). Bethesda: NIH (1992).
- Thyroid Nodule Pathology in Children of Belarus
Following the Chernobyl Accident - Astakhova, L.N.; Vorontsova,
T.V.; Drozd, V.M. In: (Ed, J. Robbins) Proceedings of a Workshop
on Treatment of Thyroid Cancer in Childhood, September
10-11, at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
(MD). Bethesda: NIH (1992).
- Morphologic Characteristics of Thyroid Carcinoma in
Children of Belarus - Cherstvoy, E.D.; Nerovnia, A.M. In:
(Ed, J. Robbins) Proceedings of a Workshop on Treatment
of Thyroid Cancer in Childhood, September 10-11, at the
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda (MD). Bethesda:
NIH (1992).
- Thyroid Cancer in Children of Ukraine from 1981 to
1992 - Oleynic, V.A.; Cheban, A.K. In: (Ed, J.
Robbins) Proceedings of a Workshop on Treatment of
Thyroid Cancer in Childhood, September 10-11, at the
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda (MD). Bethesda:
NIH (1992).
- Pathomorphologic Characteristics of Malignant Thyroid
Tumors in Children - Bogdanova, T. In: (Ed, J. Robbins)
Proceedings of a Workshop on Treatment of Thyroid Cancer
in Childhood, September 10-11, at the National Institutes
of Health, Bethesda (MD). Bethesda: NIH (1992).
- Discussion - Becker, D.V. In: (Ed, J.
Robbins) Proceedings of a Workshop on Treatment of Thyroid
Cancer in Childhood, September 10-11, at the National
Institutes of Health, Bethesda (MD). Bethesda: NIH
(1992).
- Childhood Thyroid Cancer After Radiation Exposure:
Surgical Considerations - Clark, O.H. In: (Ed, J. Robbins)
Proceedings of a Workshop on Treatment of Thyroid Cancer
in Childhood, September 10-11, at the National Institutes
of Health, Bethesda (MD). Bethesda: NIH (1992).
- Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma in Children -
Thompson, N.W. In: (Ed, J. Robbins) Proceedings of a Workshop
on Treatment of Thyroid Cancer in Childhood, September
10-11, at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
(MD). Bethesda: NIH (1992).
- Thyroid Cancer Treatment in Children - Demidichik,
E.P; Gedrevich, Z. In: (Ed, J. Robbins) Proceedings of a Workshop
on Treatment of Thyroid Cancer in Childhood, September
10-11, at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
(MD). Bethesda: NIH (1992).
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Thyroid Cancer in Children
- Komissarenko, I.V.; Rybakov, S.I.; Kovalenko, A.Y.; Larin,
A.S. In: (Ed, J. Robbins) Proceedings of a Workshop on Treatment of
Thyroid Cancer in Childhood, September 10-11, at the
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda (MD). Bethesda:
NIH (1992).
- Discussion - Middleworth, L. Van. In: (Ed,
J. Robbins) Proceedings of a Workshop on treatment of
Thyroid Cancer in Childhood, September 10-11, at the
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda (MD). Bethesda:
NIH (1992).
- The Role of Radioiodine in the Treatment of Childhood
Thyroid Cancer: A Dosimetric Approach - Maxon, H.R.
In: (Ed, J. Robbins) Proceedings of a Workshop on
Treatment of Thyroid Cancer in Childhood, September 10-11,
at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda (MD).
Bethesda: NIH (1992).
- Radioiodine Therapy in Children - Becker, D.V.;
Zanzonico, P.B. In: (Ed, J. Robbins) Proceedings of a
Workshop on Treatment of Thyroid Cancer in Childhood,
September 10-11, at the National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda (MD). Bethesda: NIH (1992).
- Comparison of I-131 Absorbed Radiation Doses in
Children and Adults: A Tool for Estimating Therapeutic I-131
Doses in Children - Reynolds, J.C. In: (Ed, J.
Robbins) Proceedings of a Workshop on Treatment of
Thyroid Cancer in Childhood, September 10-11, at the
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda (MD). Bethesda:
NIH (1992).
- Discussion - Brill, A.B. In: (Ed, J.
Robbins) Proceedings of a Workshop on Treatment of Thyroid
Cancer in Childhood, September 10-11, at the National
Institutes of Health, Bethesda (MD). Bethesda: NIH
(1992).
- Thyroid Hormone Prophylaxis After Radiation Exposure
- Kaplan, M.M. In: (Ed, J. Robbins) Proceedings of a Workshop
on Treatment of Thyroid Cancer in Childhood, September 10-11,
at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda (MD).
Bethesda: NIH (1992).
- Thyroxine Therapy for Children at Risk for Radiation
Induced Thyroid Carcinoma: A Clinical Trial? - Foley,
T.P.; Rogers, K.D. In: (Ed, J. Robbins) Proceedings of a
Workshop on Treatment of Thyroid Cancer in Childhood,
September 10-11, at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
(MD). Bethesda: NIH (1992).
- Toxic Effects of Excess Thyroid Hormone -
Zimmerman, D. In: (Ed, J. Robbins) Proceedings of a
Workshop on Treatment of Thyroid Cancer in Childhood,
September 10-11, at the National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda (MD). Bethesda: NIH (1992).
- Discussion - Wolff, J. In: (Ed, J. Robbins)
Proceedings of a Workshop on Treatment of Thyroid Cancer
in Childhood, September 10-11, at the National Institutes
of Health, Bethesda (MD). Bethesda: NIH (1992).
Additional titles of interest:
- Kazakov, V.S., Demidchik, E.P., Astakhova, L.N. Thyroid
cancer after Chernobyl. Nature. 359, 21 (1992).
- Baverstock, K., Egloff, B., Pinchera, A., Ruchti, C.,
Williams, D. Nature. 359, 21-22 (1992).
- Beral, V., Reeves, G. Childhood thyroid cancer in
Belarus. Nature. 359, 680-681 (1992).
- Shigematsu, I., Thiessen, J.W., Nature. 359, 681 (1992).
- Ron, E., Lubin, J., Schneider, A.B. Thyroid cancer
incidence. Thyroid cancer incidence. Nature. 360, 113
(1992).
- Ron E., Lubin J.H., Shore R.E., Mabuchi K., Modan B.,
Pottern L.M., Schneider A.B., Tucker M.A., Boice J.D.,
Jr., Thyroid cancer after exposure to external radiation:
a pooled analysis of seven studies, Radiat. Res. 141,
259-277 (1995).
- Yoshimoto, ZY., Ezaki, H., Etoh, R., Hiraoka, T., Akiba,
S., Prevalence rate of thyroid diseases among autopsy
cases of the atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima, 1951-85.
Radiat. Res. 131, 278-286 (1995).
- Holm, L.E., Wiklund, K.E., Lundell, G.E., Bergman, N.Å.,
Bjelkengren, G., Ericsson, U.-B.C., Cederquist, E.S., Lidberg,
M.E., Lindberg, R.S., Wicklund, H.V., Boice, J.D., Jr.,
Cancer risk in a population examined with diagnostic doses
of 131-I. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 81, 302-306 (1989).
- Shore, R.E., Issues and epidemiological evidence
regarding radiation-induced thyroid cancer. Radiat. Res.
131, 98-111 (1992).
- Nikiforov, Y., Gnepp, D.R., Pediatric thyroid cancer
after the Chernobyl disaster. Pathomorphologic study of
84 cases (1991-1992) from the Republic of Belarus.
Cancer.74, 748-766 (1994).
- Mettler, F.A., Williamson, M.R., Royal, H.D., et al.,
Thyroid nodules in the population living around
Chernobyl. JAMA. 268, 616-619 (1992).
- Machado, S.G., Land, C.E., McKay, F.W., Cancer mortality
and radioactive fallout in southwestern Utah. Am. J. Epidemiol.
125, 44-61 (1987). 13. Simon, S.L., Till, J.E., Lloyd, R.D.,
Kerber, R.L., Thomas, D.C., Preston-Martin, S., Lyon,
J.L., Stevens, W., The Utah leukemia case-control study:
Dosimetry, methodology, and results. Health Physics. 68, 460-471 (1995).
14. Stevens, W., Thomas, D.C., Lyon, J.L., Till, J.E.,
Kerber, R.A., Simon, S., Lloyd, R.D., Elghany, N.A.,
Preston-Martin, S., Leukemia in Utah and radioactive
fallout from the Nevada Test Site: A case-control study.
JAMA. 264, 585-591 (1990). 15. Till, J.E., Simon, S.L.,
Kerber, R.L., Lloyd, R.D., Stevens, W., Thomas, D.C.,
Lyon, J.L., Preston-Martin, S., The Utah thyroid cohort
study: Analysis of the dosimetry results. Health Physics.
68, 472-483 (1995).
- Kerber, R.A., Till, J.E., Simon, S.L., Lyon, J.L.,
Thomas, D.C., Preston-Martin, S., Rallison, M.L., Lloyd,
R.D., Stevens, W.S., A cohort study of thyroid disease in
relation to fallout from nuclear weapons testing. JAMA.
270, 2076-2082 (1993). 17. Land, C.E., The hazards of fallout or
of epidemiological research? N. Engl. J. Med. 300, 431-432
(1979). 18. Land, C.E., Epidemiolgical studies of
populations downwind from atmospheric weapons tests. In: Proceedings of
the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Radiation
Protection and Measurements, Washington, D.C., 1995. In
press, NCRP(Bethesda, MD) (1995).
- Hamilton, T.E., van Belle, G., LoGerfo, J.P., Thyroid
neoplasia in Marshall Islanders exposed to nuclear
fallout. JAMA. 258, 629-636 (1987).
- Dobyns, B.M., Sheline, C.E., Workman, J.B., et al.,
Malignant and benign neoplasms of the thyroid patients
treated for for hyperthyroidism: a report of the
cooperative thyrotoxicosis therapy follow-up study.
- Texelman, S., Grossman, R.F. Siperstein, A.E. Clark,
O.H., Radioiodine-associated thyroid cancers. World J. Surgery.
18, 522-528 (1994).
- Demidchik, E.P., Kazakov, V.S., Astakhova, L.N., Okeanov,
A.E., Demidchiuk, Yu.E., Thyroid cancer in children after
the Chernobyl Accident: Clinical and epidemiological
evaluation of 251 cases in the Republic of Belarus. In: Nagasaki
Symposium on Chernobyl: Update and Future. (Ed, Nagataki,
S.). Amsterdam, Elsevier (1994).
- Tsyb, A.F., Parshkov, E.M., Ivanov, V.K., Stepanenko,
V.F., Matveenko, E.G., Skoropad, Yu. D. Disease indices of
thyroid and their dose dependence in children and
adolescents affected as a result of the Chernobyl
accident. In: Nagasaki Symposium on Chernobyl: Update and
Future. (Ed, Nagataki, S.). Amsterdam, Elsevier (1994).
- Hanford Thyroid Disease Study, Newsletter, Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
(1992).
- Sobolev, B. Thyroid gland in children after the Chernobyl
accident (yesterday and today). In: Nagasaki Symposium on Chernobyl:
Update and Future. (Ed, Nagataki, S.). Amsterdam, Elsevier (1994).
- Viswanathan, K., Gierlowski, T.C., Schneider, A.B.,
Radiation-induced Thyroid Cancer in Children Proceedings
of a Workshop on Treatment of Thyroid Cancer in
Childhood, September 10-11, at the National Institutes of
Health, Bethesda (MD). Bethesda, NIH (1992).
- Thompson, D.E., Mabuchi, K., Ron, E., Soda, M., Tokunaga,
M., Ochikubo, S., Sugimoto, S., Ikeda, T., Terasaki, M.,
Izumi, S., Preston, D.L., Cancer Incidence in Atomic Bomb Survivors. Part
II: Solid Tumors, 1958-1987. Radiat. Res. 137(S), 17-67
(1994).
- Rallison N, Dobyns B, Keating R, Rall JE, Tyler FH. 1974.
Thyroid disease in children: a survey of subjectrs potentially
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- Clark DE. 1955. Association of irradiation with cancer of
the thyroid in chldren and adolescents. JAMA159: 1007-1009.
- Takeichi N, Ezakhi H, Dohi K. 1991. Thyroid cancer:
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- Kaplan NM, Garnick MB, Gelber R, Li FP, Cassady JR,
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- Dobyns, BM. 1977. Radiation hazard: experience with
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- Maxon HR. Radiation-induced thyroid disease. 1985. Med
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- Zimmerman D, Hay ID, Gough IR, Goellner JR, Ryan JJ,
Grant CS, et al. 1988. Papillary thyroid carcinoma in children
and adults: long-term follow-up of 1039 patients
conservatively treated at one institution during three
decades. Surgery 104: 1157-1166.
- Till JE, Simon SL, Kerber RL, Lloyd RD, Stevens W, Thomas
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- Ron E, Modan B, Presont D, Alfondany E, et al. 1989.
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- United Nations. 1988. United Nations Scientific Committee
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of Ionizing Radiation. New York: United Nations.
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Arrival of Fallout in the ORERP Phase II Area: Comparison
with Cumulative Deposition Estimates Based on Analyses of Retrospective
and Historical Soil Samples. Las Vegas, Nev: US Dept of
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- Thompson CB, Hutchinson SW. The Town Database: Estimates
of Fallout Times and Exposure Rates Near the Nevada Test
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- Winkelstein W, Hardy RJ, Leader RW, Motulsky AG, Wald N,
Hulley SB, Zeve VH, Spilker B. Effects of Nuclear Weapons
Testing on Health: Report of the Panel of Experts on the Archive
of PHS Documents (3 volumes). Washington, DC, US Dept of
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- Rallison ML, Dobyns BM, Keating FR, Rall JE, Tyler F.
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- National Academy of Sciences, National Research
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