Clinical presentation and clinical outcomes in Chernobyl-related paediatric thyroid cancers: what do we know now? What can we expect in the future?

RM Tuttle, F Vaisman, MD Tronko - Clinical Oncology, 2011 - Elsevier
Over the last 20 years, nearly 5000 cases of differentiated thyroid cancer have been
diagnosed and treated in the regions of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus in young people
previously exposed to the Chernobyl radioactive fallout during childhood. At diagnosis, 60–
70% of the Chernobyl-related paediatric thyroid cancers had clinically evident cervical
lymph node metastases (N1) and 10–15% had distant metastases (M1). Despite early
reports suggesting that the paediatric thyroid cancer cases that developed after exposure to …