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[Environmental contamination by iodine-131 and cancer of the thyroid gland]
M Pepe1, P Di Perna, M Re
1Istituto di Clinica Medica V, Università degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza.
Minerva Medica
|March 1, 1988
Abstract:
The biological effects of cosmic rays and ionising radiations on man are described. Particular attention is paid to the consequences of the environmental pollution caused by the Chernobyl accident and the relationship between I131 radiation and thyroid tumours is analysed.