Thyroid and Breast Cancer Following Childhood Radiation

Overview

Journal Cancer

Publisher Wiley

Specialty Oncology

Date 1977 Dec 1

PMID 201358

Citations 2

Authors

C T Curtin

B McHeffy

A J KOLARSICK

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Abstract

A 35-year-old man who received radiation for thymic enlargement as a child and subsequently developed both thyroid and breast cancer is reported. This appears to be the first case in which this association has been reported in a male.

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