Thyroid hormones are crucial for organismal development and homeostasis. In humans,
untreated congenital hypothyroidism due to thyroid agenesis inevitably leads to cretinism …

The number of patients surviving≥ 5 years after initial cancer diagnosis has significantly
increased during the last decades due to considerable improvements in the treatment of …

Thyroid cancers have long been considered to arise in middle age and, after their repeated
proliferation, resulting in further damage to the genome, they progress to more aggressive …

The increase in risk for late-onset thyroid cancer due to radiation exposure is a potential
health effect after a nuclear power plant accident mainly due to the release of radioiodine in …

Exposure of the thyroid gland to ionizing radiation at a young age is the main recognized
risk factor for differentiated thyroid cancer. After the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear …

30 years have passed since the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine,
and 5 years have passed since the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. After …

Objective Differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) is rare in childhood and adolescence although
it represents the most frequent endocrine malignancy in this population. DTC includes both …

Abstract The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake led to a subsequent nuclear accident at the
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. In its wake, we sought to examine the association …

The aim of our study was to address the potential for improvements in thyroid cancer
detection in routine clinical settings using a clinical examination, the American College of …

Background It is unclear whether the increasing incidence of thyroid cancer (TC) due to
increased diagnosis of small and indolent tumours might mask a real increase of clinically …