Re: Thyroid Cancer from Irradiation of the Head?

[Andy Hull <hull@mail.sep.bnl.gov>]

At 11:05 AM 11/26/97 -0600, you wrote:
>Would someone point me to a reference or references regarding observed
thyroid
>cancers from previous irradiation of the head?  In this case I am
specifically
>interested in x-ray irradiation of the skin for facial acne.
>
>Thanks for your effort,
>
>Mike Lewandowski
>Health Physicist
>3M Company
>(612) 737-4452
>
Mike,
A comprehensive review of the then available data may be found  in Shore,
R.E. "Issues and Epidemiological Evidence Regarding Radiation=Induced
Thyroid Cancer", Radiation Research 131, 98-111 (1992). 
Andy