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Thyroid carcinoma after high‐dose external radiotherapy for Hodgkin's disease. Report of three cases
Author(s) -
McDougall I. Ross,
Coleman C. Norman,
Burke Jerome S.,
Saunders William,
Kaplan Henry S.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(19800415)45:8<2056::aid-cncr2820450812>3.0.co;2-m
Subject(s) - medicine , radiation therapy , thyroid carcinoma , thyroid , complication , thyroid cancer , disease , cancer , carcinoma , thyroid disease , radiology , oncology , surgery
Three patients (two female and one male), who had received mantle irradiation for Hodgkin's disease eight, ten, and twelve years previously, developed papillary thyroid carcinoma. The radiation doses to the necks overlying the site of thyroid cancers were 3000, 4000, and 4100 rads, respectively, It has been stated that there is no risk of developing thyroid cancer with such high doses of external irradiation but apparently this complication will be encountered in a small number of patients.