Thyroid cancer in children and young adults in the North of England. Is increasing incidence related to the Chernobyl accident?

European Journal of Cancer : Official Journal for European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) [and] European Association for Cancer Research (EACR)
S J CotterillL Parker

Abstract

Population-based data on thyroid carcinomas was obtained from the Northern Region Young Person's Malignant Disease Registry to analyse the incidence of thyroid cancers in young people (<25 years) in the North of England for the period 1968 and 1997 and to assess if changes in incidence were consistent with the spatial and temporal distribution of the fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear accident. We compared incidence rates for differentiated (papillary or follicular) thyroid carcinomas 1968-1986 with those for 1987-1997. There were 75 cases of thyroid carcinoma diagnosed over the study period, of which 63 were differentiated carcinoma and 12 were medullary carcinoma. There were 26 young adults (15-24 years) diagnosed with differentiated thyroid carcinoma in the 19-year period 1968-1986 and 30 in the subsequent 11 years 1987-1997, Age standardised rate (ASR) 3.0 versus 6.5, respectively (rate ratio 2.2, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.3-3.6). There were three children (aged <15 years) diagnosed with differentiated carcinoma in the period 1968-1986 and four in the period 1987-1997, ASR 0.2 versus 0.6 (rate ratio 2.7, 95% CI: 0.6-12.1). Regression models showed a significant increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer after the Che...Continue Reading

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