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Writing and Publishing Scientific Articles
Solution to Activity 1, Stating an Abstract’s Conclusions and Implications The authors accomplished their purpose—they quantified the risk of thyroid cancer and identified environmental and host modifiers of this risk. Note that both the conclusions and the implication that appear below are supported by the major findings reported in the Results paragraph of the abstract. Conclusions: Children exposed to 131 I at doses like those seen after the Chernobyl accident have a significantly increased risk of thyroid cancer, and this risk is dose dependent. Both iodine deficiency and iodine supplementation appear to modify this risk. These results have important public health implications: stable iodine supplementation in iodine-deficient populations may substantially reduce the risk of thyroid cancer in case of exposure to radioactive iodine in childhood.
Adapted from Cardis E et al. Risk of thyroid cancer after exposure to 131 I in childhood. J Natl Cancer Inst 97:724–732, 2005.
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