J Korean Med Sci.  2015 Dec;30(12):1920-1921. 10.3346/jkms.2015.30.12.1920.

Thyroid Cancer: We Need a Carcinogen-specific Genome Study

• Bae JM

• KMID: 2359981
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2015.30.12.1920

Abstract

No abstract available.

MeSH Terms

Adult
Carcinogens/toxicity
Environmental Exposure
Genome, Human/radiation effects
Humans
Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced/epidemiology/etiology/*genetics
*Nuclear Power Plants
Republic of Korea/epidemiology
Thyroid Neoplasms/epidemiology/etiology/*genetics
Carcinogens

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