Time to reconsider thyroid cancer screening in Fukushima

Lancet. 2014 May 31;383(9932):1883-4. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60909-0.

Authors

Kenji Shibuya¹, Stuart Gilmour², Akira Oshima³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. Electronic address: shibuyak@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
² Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
³ Department of Cancer Control and Statistics, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka, Japan.

PMID: 24881983
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60909-0

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Early Detection of Cancer / methods*
Environmental Exposure / adverse effects
Fukushima Nuclear Accident*
Humans
Japan / epidemiology
Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / epidemiology*
Thyroid Neoplasms / epidemiology*