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Thyroid cancer pooled analysis from 14 case–control studies: what have we learned?

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  1. Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, 1441 Eastlake Avenue, M/S 44, Los Angeles, CA, 90033-0800, USA

    Susan Preston-Martin

  2. Unit of Field and Intervention Studies, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

    Silvia Franceschi

  3. Radiation Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA

    Elaine Ron

  4. Laboratory of General Epidemiology, Mario Negri Institute, Milan, Italy

    Eva Negri

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Preston-Martin, S., Franceschi, S., Ron, E. et al. Thyroid cancer pooled analysis from 14 case–control studies: what have we learned?. Cancer Causes Control 14, 787–789 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026312203045

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