Radiation-induced Thyroid Cancer



  • Incidence increases with doses of thyroidal irradiation from 6.5–1,500 rad (higher doses are associated with hypothyroidism)
Peak occurrence:5–30 (up to 50) years post irradiation
  • Thyroid abnormalities in 20%:
    • (a) in 14% adenomatous hyperplasia, follicular adenoma, colloid nodules, thyroiditis
    • (b) in 6% thyroid cancer
  • Nondetectable microscopic foci of cancer in 25% of patients operated on for benign disease!
  • In patients with multiple cold nodules frequency of cancer is 40%

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