Cancer & Diagnostic imaging

[JMUCKERHEIDE@delphi.com]

Dave, Group,

Does anyone know the dose range in this population?  and years of follow-up?

> 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

Thanks.

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
jmuckerheide@delphi.com