The outcome of PTC both in children and in adolescents exposed to the post-Chernobyl radioiodine fallout was rather favorable. TT with RAI is recommended for minimizing loco-regional or distant relapses.
Young patients in Belarus with papillary thyroid carcinoma in the "post-Chernobyl" group differed in many clinical and pathological parameters from those in the "sporadic" group. "External radiation related" papillary thyroid carcinomas were distinguished from other two groups of carcinoma in more advanced local spread and more aggressive behaviour of micro-carcinomas.
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