Re: Thyroid cancer: Chernobyl

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@hotmail.com>]

>We probably will not see disease specific mortality stats for this cohort 
>for a while... Many thyroid carcinomas are curable, with good prognosis of 
>survival.
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I heard/saw somewhere not long ago a (low) number for the thyroid cancer 
deaths among "Chernobyl" children. (I don't want to mention the approx. 
number since it may be wrong and also since I don't remember the source - 
let me just say that it was _much_ lower than 1800).

Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com

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