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7 Comparison with Other Studies
7 Comparison with Other Studies
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and the negative study has wide confidence intervals, there might be no fundamental disagreement. For the HTDS analysis of thyroid carcinoma, the estimate and the confidence interval for the linear slope term for thyroid carcinoma are not reported, because the maximumlikelihood estimates failed to converge.
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Of the five cohort studies of external radiation and thyroid cancer that were analyzed by Ron and others (1995) , one yielded estimated dose-response relationships considerably stronger than the others.
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COMPARISON WITH CHERNOBYL STUDIES The effectiveness of 13~} in causing thyroid cancer has been shown by the Chernobyl experience. The first increases, reported in ~ 992, of thyroid cancer attributed to the accident were challenged as possibly the result of intensive screening.
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