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Radiation from bomb tests could cause thyroid cancer, but screening program not advisable [1]

Some Americans are at higher risk for developing thyroid cancer after being exposed to radioactive iodine released during nuclear bomb blasts in the 1950s and 1960s, but the government should not

Publication Date: 
02/12/1997
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