Response to Toshihide Tsuda, Yumiko Miyano and Eiji Yamamoto [1]

Environmental Health

Comment

Hyeong Sik Ahn¹  Louise Davies²  Ausrele Kesminiene³  Joachim Schüz³  Evgenia Ostroumova³  Salvatore Vaccarella³  Kayo Togawa⁴ 

[1] Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea;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;International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organisation (IARC/WHO), Lyon, France;National Cancer Center Institute for Cancer Control, Tokyo, Japan;

关键词: Thyroid cancer;    Incidence;    Overdiagnosis;    Nuclear accident;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12940-022-00952-x

 received in 2022-11-28, accepted in 2022-12-26,  发布年份 2022

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundUsing a toolkit approach, Tsuda et al. critiqued work carried out by or in collaboration with the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC/WHO), including the IARC technical publication No. 46 on “Thyroid health monitoring after nuclear accidents” (TM-NUC), the project on nuclear emergency situations and improvement on medical and health surveillance (SHAMISEN), and the IARC-led work on global thyroid cancer incidence patterns as per IARC core mandate.Main bodyWe respond on the criticism of the recommendations of the IARC technical publication No. 46, and of global thyroid cancer incidence evaluation.ConclusionAfter nuclear accidents, overdiagnosis can still happen and must be included in informed decision making when providing a system of optimal help for cases of radiation-induced thyroid cancer, to minimize harm to people by helping them avoid diagnostics and treatment they may not need.

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