What is Endocrinology - What are the thyroid cancer risk factors?
In the absence of an inherited genetic condition like multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN2), family history and exposure to ionising radiation, particularly when young, are the main risk factors (, 15 years old). In the years following the Chernobyl nuclear accident, studies revealed a dose-related thyroid cancer exposure risk that was 5- to 20-fold higher than in children who had not been exposed. An additional risk factor could have been a relative iodine shortage.
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