Endocrine Abstracts

Background: An increased incidence of thyroid cancer among young population of contaminated territories of Russia after Chernobyl accident made very important morphological verification of diagnosis. Many epidemiological and molecular studies of post-Chernobyl thyroid cancer conducted by various research teams required an independent review of tumour histology. The International Pathology Panel formed consensus diagnosis for each case of post-Chernobyl thyroid tumours and prop...