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Fig. 3 | Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

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From: Increased risk of thyroid cancer in female residents nearby nuclear power plants in Korea: was it due to detection bias?

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Administrative districts of Yeonggwang-gun in which cases of thyroid cancer occur in 1997–2003 and circles with a radius of five kilometers from Yeonggwang NPPs*: Baeksu-eup (violet area), Beopseong-myeon (blue area), Hongnong-eup (gray area), Kunseo-myeon (red area), Yeonggwang-eup (yellow area), Kunnam-myeon (green area), Yeomsan-myeon (ivory area), Taema-myeon (pink area), Myoryang-myeon (white area). *Black lines: boundary lines of administrative districts, yellow circle with red boundary lines: area within a radius of five kilometers from NPPs, green rounded rectangular: NPP site. *The center of circle is set at center of Yeonggwang NPP site. All maps adapted from National Geographic Information Institute, South Korea. http://map.ngii.go.kr. Accessed 14 Jun, 2017

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