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ArticleRadiation and environmental biophysics2024

Thyroid cancer incidence in cohorts exposed in childhood to

Richard J Q McNally, Richard Wakeford, Kathryn J Bunch, Louise Hayes, Sally Vernon, Polly-Anne Jeffrey, Lizz Paley, Alex Elliott

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Article in Radiation and environmental biophysics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Richard J Q McNallyPopulation Health Sciences Institute & Newcastle University Centre for Cancer, Sir James Spence Institute, Newcastle University, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4LP, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6685-6467
Richard WakefordCentre for Occupational and Environmental Health, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. Richard.Wakeford@manchester.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-2934-0987
Kathryn J BunchFormally of the Childhood Cancer Research Group, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4202-5903
Louise HayesPopulation Health Sciences Institute & Newcastle University Centre for Cancer, Sir James Spence Institute, Newcastle University, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4LP, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6442-4150
Sally VernonNational Disease Registration Service, National Health Service England, 10 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London, E14 4PU, UK.ORCID 0009-0007-6290-715X
Polly-Anne JeffreyNational Disease Registration Service, National Health Service England, 10 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London, E14 4PU, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6476-0402
Lizz PaleyNational Disease Registration Service, National Health Service England, 10 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London, E14 4PU, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3879-5377
Alex ElliottSchool of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9285-5716

Funding

UK National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) - Policy Research Programme PR-ST-1017-10001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A fire in one of the Windscale nuclear reactors at Sellafield (Cumbria, England) in October 1957 released 1,800 TBq of

Indexed as

Iodine RadioisotopesNeoplasms, Radiation-InducedRadioactive Hazard ReleaseThyroid NeoplasmsAdolescentChildChild, PreschoolCohort StudiesEnglandFemaleHumansIncidenceInfantInfant, NewbornMaleNuclear ReactorsIodine-131Iodine Radioisotopes131IAccidentIonising radiationNuclear reactorRiskThyroid cancer

Identifiers

PMID39150515
PMCPMC11588877

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