Cancer & Diagnostic imaging

[scherer@uiuc.edu (David Scherer)]

The following appeared on the Nuclear Medicine List.  I thought it would be
of interest here, also.

Dave Scherer
scherer@uiuc.edu
>
>RADIATION RESEARCH
>Volume 145, Number 1, January 1996
>Table of Contents
>
>-SNIP-
>
>Per Hall, Anders Mattsson and John D. Boice, Jr.
>Thyroid Cancer after Diagnostic Administration of Iodine-131 (p. 86)
>No increased risk of thyroid cancer related to ionizing radiation was found
>in 34,104 individuals exposed to diagnostic doses of iodine-131.
>
>-SNIP-
>
>Since this has been a topic of conversation here and other related
>nuclear medicine outlets, I thought I would bring this to everyone's
>attention.
>
>Bob Atcher
>Cardiovascular Disease Div.
>Dept. of Medicine
>Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham