Errare humanum est, sed in errare perseverare diabolicum: methodological errors in the assessment of the relationship between I-131 therapy and possible increases in the incidence of malignancies

Affiliations

• ¹ EANM Thyroid Committee, Vienna, Austria. verburg@med.uni-marburg.de.
• ² Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Marburg, Baldinger Straße, 35043, Marburg, Germany. verburg@med.uni-marburg.de.
• ³ EANM Thyroid Committee, Vienna, Austria.
• ⁴ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Radiology Center, Vienna, Austria.
• ⁵ Academic Department of Nuclear Medicine, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• ⁶ EANM Dosimetry Committee, Vienna, Austria.
• ⁷ Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• ⁸ Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia.
• ⁹ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Oncology Institute of Vojvodina, Sremska Kamenica, Serbia.
• ¹⁰ Department of Medical Physics and Radiation Protection, Gurutzeta/Cruces University Hospital, Barakaldo, Spain.
• ¹¹ Department of Oncology and Nuclear medicine, University Hospital Center "Sestre milosrdnice", Zagreb, Croatia.
• ¹² Department of Nuclear Medicine, Würzburg University Hospital, Würzburg, Germany.
• ¹³ Department of Nuclear Medicine, German Oncology Center, University Hospital of the European University, Limassol, Cyprus.
• ¹⁴ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Nuclear Oncology and Thyroidological Oncology, University Cancer Institute - Oncopole, Toulouse, France.
• ¹⁵ Clinic for Nuclear Medicine and Competence Centre for Thyroid Diseases, Centre Imaging Institute of Southern Switzerland, Bellinzona, Switzerland.
• ¹⁶ Clinic for Nuclear Medicine, Zurich University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ¹⁷ Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Marburg, Baldinger Straße, 35043, Marburg, Germany.