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DOI: 10.1002/ijc.31270,  ,  PMID:
29355960  Thyroid tumors
Issn Print: 0020-7136
Publication Date: 2018/02/06  Labor and delivery

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Although childhood exposure to ionizing radiation is a well-established risk RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGISTS

factor for thyroid cancer, the risk associated with adulthood exposure remains ASSISTING FLUOROSCOPICALLY
unclear. We prospectively examined the association between cumulative, low- GUIDED INTERVENTIONAL
to-moderate dose occupational radiation exposure to the thyroid and thyroid PROCEDURES
cancer incidence in the U.S. Radiologic Technologists cohort. The study Radiation Protection Dosimetry
included 89,897 members who completed at least two of four mailed 2017; 176(4): 418–424.
questionnaires and were cancer-free at the time of the first questionnaire.
Cumulative occupational thyroid radiation dose (mean = 57 mGy, range = 0–
1,600 mGy) was estimated based on self-reported work histories, historical
data and, during the years 1960–1997, 783,000 individual film badge
measurements. During follow-up, we identified 476 thyroid cancer cases. We
used Poisson regression to estimate excess relative risk of thyroid cancer per
100 milliGray (ERR/100 mGy) absorbed dose to the thyroid gland. After
adjusting for attained age, sex, birth year, body mass index and pack-years
smoked, we found no association between thyroid dose and thyroid cancer
risk (ERR/100 mGy = −0.05, 95% CI <–0.10, 0.34). In this large cohort study of
radiologic technologists, protracted, low-to-moderate dose ionizing radiation
exposure to the thyroid gland in adulthood was not associated with an
increased risk of thyroid cancer.

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