Long-term strategies for thyroid health monitoring after nuclear accidents: recommendations from an Expert Group convened by IARC

Affiliations

• ¹ Section of Environment and Radiation, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France.
• ² Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.
• ³ Epidemiology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland.
• ⁴ Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ⁵ Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Surgery-Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, NH, USA; VA Outcomes Group, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, VT, USA.
• ⁷ Division of Health and Environment, Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France.
• ⁸ Department of Medical, Surgical and Neurological Sciences, Università di Siena, Siena, Italy.
• ⁹ Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
• ¹⁰ Department of Industrial Radiation Hygiene, State Research Center-Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center, Moscow, Russia.
• ¹¹ Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ¹² Department of Fundamental and Applied Problems of Endocrinology, Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism of Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine.
• ¹³ Section of Infections, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France.
• ¹⁴ Section of Environment and Radiation, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France. Electronic address: schuzj@iarc.fr.