## Abstract Thyroid cancer incidence rates have increased steadily in the United States and elsewhere. Radiation exposure at a young age is a strong risk factor, but otherwise the etiology is unclear. To explore etiologic clues, we studied the risk of thyroid cancer after an earlier primary cancer,
Diet and cancer: Evidence from associations of multiple primary cancers in the seer program
β Scribed by Arthur Schatzkin; Anne Baranovsky; Larry G. Kessler
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 688 KB
- Volume
- 62
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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