Environmental Exposures Contributing to Thyroid Cancer Risk
This special issue belongs to the section "Human Toxicology and Epidemiology".
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
The incidence of thyroid cancer has been steadily increasing worldwide since the 1970s. Although this increase may partially be explained by early detection of small, papillary thyroid tumors due to increased use and quality of diagnostic imaging techniques, several studies have reported that exposure to environmental factors also contributes to this phenomenon. Besides radiation, a well-established risk factor for thyroid cancer, environmental exposure to pollutants are of increasing interest to researchers due to their ubiquitous presence in the environment, potentially long biological availability on the body, and unsufficient data on carcinogenicity or understanding of their effect on the thyroid gland.
This Special Issue foccuses on highlighting research addressing the association between environmental exposures and the risk of thyroid cancer. Topics of interest to this issue are:
- Epidemiological studies or large dataset analyses
- Molecular or (epi)genetic mechanism assessments
- Environmental exposure detection methods
- Assessment of sources of exposure in a population-based setting
- Interactions or mixture effects of two or more enviromental exposures.
Authors are invited to submit high-quality original research, reviews, short communications, and commentaries.
Dr. Maaike van Gerwen
Dr. Catherine F Sinclair
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Thyroid cancer
- Epidemiology
- Environmental exposure
- Sources of exposure
- Radiation
- Endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Persistent organic pollutants
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Published Papers
Toxics - ISSN 2305-6304