Does radiation and radioactivity exposure cause thyroid cancer?
This page is an excerpt from the AACE home page. In early August 1997, the National Cancer Institute acknowledged radiation exposure to millions of children during above ground nuclear tests in the early 1950’s. The media blitz which followed this report heightened interest and concern among the public about thyroid cancer. The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE), which published “AACE Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Thyroid Carcinoma” in January 1997, and conducted the “Stick Your Neck Out, America” campaign to assist patients in recognizing and detecting thyroid cancer, believes clarification needs to be made about the link between radiation exposure and thyroid cancer. There is no doubt radioactive fallout could lead to an increased incidence of thyroid cancer in the children (now middle-aged adults) who were exposed. However, the link between I-131 (Iodine) and thyroid cancer has never been proven. AACE President H. Jack Baskin, M.D., F.A.C.E
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