Second Primary Cancer Among Patients With Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Following the Chernobyl Disaster.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

To our knowledge, there are no complete population-based studies of the risks of developing second malignant tumors after papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) in patients following the Chernobyl nuclear accident.

Objective

To study the risk of second primary cancers in patients with PTC after the Chernobyl disaster.

Design, setting, and participants

This was a retrospective cohort study conducted in the Republic of Belarus over a 31-year time frame evaluating patients with primary PTC and second malignant tumors. Personal data from the Belarussian Cancer Registry were used in the investigation, and only second primary cancers were included in the analysis. Patients were observed from January 1, 1990, to December 31, 2021, for the establishment of second primar

SUBMITTER: Taha A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10436126 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature