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You will be subject to the destination website's privacy policy when you follow the link. Jonathon Russell, M. The symptoms start slowly. Fatigue is the most common. There might be changes in hair, nails or skin, and other vague complaints that could be caused by aging, diet, stress or dozens of other factors. Women in the prime of their lives, busy with work and families, may not even notice. When a doctor finally diagnoses an underactive thyroid due to cancer, it often comes as a shock.
Thyroid disorders are more common in women , probably due to the roles of hormones, which are different in females than in males. Thyroid nodules growths , Russell says, affect up to 80 percent of women, but only 5 percent to 15 percent of those lumps and bumps are malignant. If a woman notices a lump in the base of her neck, or if a doctor notices a lesion on the thyroid on an X-ray or CT , the next diagnostic test is usually lab work, followed by an ultrasound , which Russell says provides a lot of information on the nodule.
The risk of hypothyroidism, probably as a consequence of cellular death, increases with the radiation dose. In a study of 4, Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors, autoimmune thyroid diseases were not associated with radiation exposure 29 Radiation dose-response relationships for thyroid nodules and autoimmune thyroid diseases in Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors years after radiation exposure.
Finally, several studies have indicated that low-doses of radiation to the thyroid could be associated with an increased prevalence of anti-thyroid antibodies 30 Autoimmune thyroid disease associated with environmental thyroidal irradiation. A familial susceptibility to radiation-induced thyroid cancer has been suggested by the pedigree of some families in which several irradiated individuals have developed a thyroid tumor more often that would be expected by chance.
Also, the association of thyroid, parathyroid, salivary gland, or neural tumors in a subject exposed to radiation to the neck suggests a predisposition to develop tumors after radiation exposure. However, the natural history of the thyroid cancer was not altered by any familial concordance 31 Familial concordance of thyroid and other head and neck tumors in an irradiated cohort: analysis of contributing factors.
PTC is the most frequent form of thyroid carcinoma diagnosed after radiation exposure. After the Chernobyl accident, most young children had a solid or follicular PTC subtype with an aggressive behavior and a short latency period, whereas older children had more frequently classical PTC that was less aggressive and was discovered after a longer latency period. Solid subtype was also frequently observed in the rare PTC that occurred in young children in the absence of any radiation exposure, demonstrating that this subtype is associated with a younger age at occurrence of the tumor 16 Differentiated thyroid carcinoma in childhood: long term follow-up of 72 patients.
Radiation exposure increases DUOX1 expression, leading to an important production of ROS in the thyroid gland after radiation exposure, and this may explain its high sensitivity to radiation 33 This DNA damage includes single- or double-strand breaks that will result in deletions and chromosomal rearrangements.
Normal thyrocytes multiply during body growth, especially before the age of 5 years, and this will favor the accumulation of genetic defects after radiation exposure. Mitotic rate decreases with age and becomes very low in adults. This may explain the high sensitivity of the thyroid gland to the carcinogenic effects of radiation at birth, which decreases with increasing age, becoming low or not significant after the age of years 5 5.
In PTC occurring after radiation exposure, intra-chromosomal rearrangements are frequently observed. Pattern of ras and gsp oncogene mutations in radiation-associated human thyroid tumors.
Identification of kinase fusion oncogenes in post-Chernobyl radiation-induced thyroid cancers. J Clin Invest. Pattern of radiation-induced RET and NTRK1 rearrangements in post-Chernobyl papillary thyroid carcinomas: biological, phenotypic, and clinical implications. Clin Cancer Res. Oncogenic rearrangements of the RET proto-oncogene in papillary thyroid carcinomas from children exposed to the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
Cancer Res. Activated RET oncogene in thyroid cancers of children from areas contaminated by Chernobyl accident. High prevalence of RET rearrangement in thyroid tumors of children from Belarus after the Chernobyl reactor accident. Oncogenic alterations in papillary thyroid cancers of young patients. A transcriptomic signature that includes genes that are differently expressed in sporadic tumors relative to tumors occurring after external radiation exposure during childhood permits the distinction of these two groups of tumors with a sensitivity of 0.
Gene expression signature discriminates sporadic from post-radiotherapy-induced thyroid tumors. Endocr Relat Cancer. Furthermore, this signature allows for classifying tumors from Belarus and Ukraine as either sporadic or occurring in highly contaminated subjects during the Chernobyl accident 43 Discriminating gene expression signature of radiation-induced thyroid tumors after either external exposure or internal contamination. These data confirm previous studies 44 A radiation-induced gene signature distinguishes post-Chernobyl from sporadic papillary thyroid cancers.
Copy number and gene expression alterations in radiation-induced papillary thyroid carcinoma from Chernobyl pediatric patients. Radiation signatures in childhood thyroid cancers after the Chernobyl accident: possible roles of radiation in carcinogenesis.
Cancer Sci. Strategy to find molecular signatures in a small series of rare cancers: validation for radiation-induced breast and thyroid tumors.
PloS One. The risk of developing a thyroid cancer and its temporal pattern of occurrence is of clinical importance for the long-term surveillance of late effects of radiation to the neck. In daily practice, the clinician could be in front of patients who have been exposed to external radiation or patients with thyroid abnormalities that require the search for a history of radiation exposure 28 In the case of external radiation exposure, the risk of radiation-induced thyroid tumor can be estimated according to the age at exposure and the dose delivered to the thyroid gland; additionally, it is important to search for other effects of radiation and a personal or family history of head and neck tumors.
An exhaustive physical examination and ultrasonography of the thyroid gland and of lymph node areas are performed. Also abnormalities that may be induced by radiation exposure to the neck such as tumors of the salivary glands, hyperparathyroidism, and neural tumors should be screened.
Laboratory tests include screening for hypothyroidism TSH and hyperparathyroidism calcium. Radiation exposure during childhood increases the risk of hyperparathyroidism, and this risk increases with radiation doses 48 Levels of parathyroid hormone and calcitonin in serum among atomic bomb survivors.
Hyperparathyroidism after radioactive iodine therapy. Am J Surg. Subjects exposed to radiation with high Tg levels and with a normal clinical examination have an increased risk of developing thyroid nodules 50 Thyroid nodules in the follow-up of irradiated individuals: comparison of thyroid ultrasound with scanning and palpation.
Patients with a history of radiation exposure during childhood Figure 1 should be submitted to follow-up for life. Patients without abnormalities can be evaluated every 1 to 5 years, according to risk factors.
Figure 1 Work-up of subjects with a history of external radiation during childhood. Solid thyroid nodules larger than 1 cm in diameter are submitted to fine needle biopsy for cytology.
If multiple nodules are found, the fine needle biopsy is indicated in nodules that are suspicious at ultrasound. Patients with sub-centimeter nodules are controlled every years with ultrasonography. Hypothyroidism is treated with levothyroxine. In addition, levothyroxine treatment is considered in euthyroid patients with high risk factors and in patients with small nodules in order to maintain the serum TSH levels in the low normal range.
If the cytology suggests the presence of a papillary carcinoma, a total thyroidectomy is recommended. Total thyroidectomy is also performed when surgery has been decided for an apparently benign nodule, with the aim of reducing the risk of nodule recurrence. Evaluation of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident has clearly demonstrated that contamination with radioactive isotopes of iodine during childhood increases the risk of developing a thyroid cancer.
It is therefore warranted to avoid any thyroid irradiation in case of atmospheric contamination by means of shielding, food restrictions, and evacuation if necessary and with the administration of large amounts of stable iodine. Uptake will be low during hours and then will re-increase. KI prophylaxis should be administered in priority to children and pregnant women. It is not recommended for people over 60 years or those with cardio-vascular disease. KI can induce thyrotoxicosis in subjects with nodular goiter or thyroid autonomy.
In Poland, after the Chernobyl accident, KI doses were distributed to over 18 million subjects, and no case of thyrotoxicosis has been reported, and only a few subjects had symptoms 51 Nauman J, Wolff J.
Iodide prophylaxis in Poland after the Chernobyl reactor accident: benefits and risks. Am J Med. The newborns of mothers who took KI at the end of their pregnancies had increased serum TSH at birth, but this was transient, and no neurological sequelae were observed. In France, KI was distributed to the population that lives within 10 kilometers of one of the 19 French nuclear power plants 52 Distributing KI pills to minimize thyroid radiation exposure in case of a nuclear accident in France.
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