カテゴリー「thyroid cancer」
Title: Safety goals in ‘risk-informed, performance-based’ regulation
Author: Saji, Genn
Reference: Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 80(2), P.163–172, May 2003
doi:10.1016/S0951-8320(03)00026-7
Keywords: Safety goals; Risk-informed, performance-based regulation; Land contamination; How safe is safe enough?; Chernobyl accident; Accidental health effects; International Nuclear Event Scales
Abstract: By extending a framework of the International Nuclear Event Scales (INES) widely used throughout the world, the author proposes a new concept of reactor safety goals that facilitates engineering applications, while removing some of the uncertainties often encountered in implementing safety goals. The INES criteria specified in releases are translated into doses by performing dispersion calculations for a typical site to estimate radiological consequences to the public. Quantitative health objectives that incorporate lessons learned from radiological consequences of the Chernobyl accident are deployed into master risk curves. More attention is paid to immediate noble gas releases occurring in the early phase of severe accidents, as well as the delayed release of iodine and cesium that can cause wide spread land contamination. The land contaminated with radioactive iodine around Chernobyl and the subsequent ingestion of iodine through pasture-cow-milk pathways is said to have induced many of the thyroid cancer cases. By monitoring more frequent incidents with/without release, a set of master risk curves can be used to assess the operating performance of plants in a safety space delineated by three regions (acceptable, tolerable, unacceptable). It is concluded that another Level 5 or beyond radiological consequence, especially the potential land contamination by 137Cs would be a disaster and is totally unacceptable.
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0951832003000267
Title: And now, Fukushima
Author: Richard Wakeford
Reference: Journal of Radiological Protection, 31 (2), p.167-176, Jun 2011
doi: 10.1088/0952-4746/31/2/E02
Keywords: Fukushima
Abstract: …arising from the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station 25 years…for a worker of a serious cancer resulting from a whole-body…of stable iodine floods the thyroid gland and blocks the uptake by the thyroid of 131 I, although the timing…
URL: http://iopscience.iop.org/0952-4746/31/2/E02/pdf/0952-4746_31_2_E02.pdf
Title: Childhood Cancer
Author:
Reference: [PDF-2MB]Mar 2011 America’s Children and the Environment, Third Edition
Keywords: childhood cancers
Abstract: …Other childhood cancers with identified associations to environmental contaminants include thyroid cancer, Wilms’ tumor (a type of kidney cancer), and Ewing’s sarcoma (a cancer of the bone or soft tissue). An increased risk of thyroid cancer in children has been linked to ionizing radiation exposure. Much of the evidence for this association comes from studies of individuals in areas with high ionizing radiation exposure due to the Chernobyl accident in eastern Europe….
URL: http://www.epa.gov/ace/ace3draft/draft_pdfs/ACE3ChildhoodCancerReviewPackage3-02-11.pdf
Title: 223 Peculiarities of Biological Action of Low Irradiation Doses and Their Probable Relation to the Health State of Participants of Chernobyl Accident Liquidation.
Author: E.B. BURLAKOVA*, A.N. GOLOSHCHAPOV, N.V. GORBUNOVA, S.M. GUREVICH, G.P. ZHIZHINA, .I. KOZACHENKO, A.A. KONRADOV, D.B. KORMAN, E.M. MOLOCHKINA, L.G. NAGLER, I.B. ZEROVA, S.I. SKALATSKAYA, M.A. SMOTRYAEVA, O.A. TARASENKO, u.A. TRESHCHENKOVA, V.A. SHEVCHENKO
Reference: [PDF-228K]Oct 2002
Keywords:
Abstract: …Long-term observation of thyroid state showed…people affected by the Chernobyl accident consequences…immunological changes in the Chernobyl accident sufferers…cause of increase of thyroid cancer in liquidators and children…
URL: http://www.rri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/NSRG/reports/kr21/kr21pdf/Burlakova.pdf
Title: Stress in accident and post-accident management at Chernobyl
Author: Philippe Girard / Gilles Heriard Dubreuil
Reference: Journal of Radiological Protection, 16 (3), p.167-180, Sep 1996
doi: 10.1088/0952-4746/16/3/003
Keywords:
Abstract: …consequences of the Chernobyl accident on human health…some of them, such as thyroid pathologies— are…on the effects of the Chernobyl accident on the health…those questioned to the Chernobyl disaster. Constant reference is made to thyroid disorders. There are…
URL: http://iopscience.iop.org/0952-4746/16/3/003/
Title: United States-assisted studies on dose reconstruction in the former Soviet Union
Author: Anspaugh, L.R. / Bouville, A.
Reference: Dec 1995 Conference: 1. international conference of the European Commission, Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine on the consequences of the Chernobyl accident, Minsk
Keywords: childhood-thyroid cancer leukemia
Abstract: Following the Chernobyl accident, the US and the USSR entered into an agreement to work on the safety of civilian nuclear reactors; one aspect of that work was to study the environmental transport and health effects of radionuclides released by the accident. After the break-up of the USSR separate agreements were established between the US and Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia to continue work on dose reconstruction and epidemiologic studies of health effects from exposure to external radiation and the incorporation of radionuclides. Studies in Belarus and Ukraine related to the Chernobyl accident now emphasize epidemiologic: studies of childhood-thyroid cancer and leukemia, and eye-lens-cataract formation in liquidators. Supporting studies on dose reconstruction emphasize a variety of ecological, physical, and biological techniques. Studies being conducted in Russia currently emphasize health effects in the workers and the population around the Mayak Industrial Association. As this production complex is an analogue of the US Hanford Works, advantage is being taken of the US experience in conducting a similar, recently completed dose-reconstruction study. In all cases the primary work on dose reconstruction is being performed by scientists from the former Soviet Union. US assistance is in the form of expert consultation and participation, exchange visits, provision of supplies and equipment, and other forms of local assistance.
URL: http://www.osti.gov/bridge/product.biblio.jsp?query_id=2&page=0&osti_id=206957
Title: Overview of research and future prospects in radiation medicine based on the current health status in Belarus
Author: Bespalchuk, Pavel I / Kabak, Sergey / Cherstvoy, Eugenij / Demidchik, Yurij / Dubovik, Boris V / Romanovsky, Dmitry J / Stogarov, Alexander
Reference: International Congress Series, 1258, p.85-89, Nov 2003
doi: 10.1016/S0531-5131(03)01146-4
Keywords: Chernobyl; Thyroid cancer; Liquidator; Morbility; Mortality
Abstract: As a result of the Chernobyl disaster, the population of Belarus has been, and continues to be, exposed to more complicated environmental factors than simply those related to radiation exposure. The Chernobyl catastrophe produced barely evaluated consequences both for the population and for the economy of Belarus. We present a brief outline of the radiological problems and population health research in Belarus on the basis of the National and Statistics Reports of Health Care Trends in Belarus (1993–2001) of the Ministry of Health Care of Belarus and its affiliated institutions.
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0531513103011464
Title: Chapter 10 – Childhood Thyroid Carcinoma
Author: Harness, Jay K. / Sahar, David E.
Reference: Textbook of Endocrine Surgery, Jan 2005
ISBN:9780721601397
Keywords: children
Abstract: …appearance of thyroid cancer ranges from…after the Chernobyl accident…follicular cancer. A tumor…role of a thyroid-specific…radiation-induced (Chernobyl accident…shown in thyroid tumors…to thyroid cancer cells…
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780721601397500144
Title: Medical screening of thyroid diseases in the Gomel region, Belarus
Author: Vorobey, Vladimir S / Masyakin, Vladimir B / Arkhipenko, Vladimir N / Panasyuk, Galina D / Derzhitskaya, Yelena V / Batalova, Yelena N
Reference: International Congress Series, 1234, p.49-55, May 2002
doi: 10.1016/S0531-5131(01)00594-5
Keywords: Medical screening; Thyroid diseases; Belarus
Abstract: …been observed in thyroid cancer among children…contribution of the Chernobyl-Sasakawa Project…diagnosis of thyroid cancer among children and…period of the Chernobyl-Sasakawa International…Approximately 16% of thyroid cancer cases among children…
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0531513101005945
Title: Thyroid carcinoma after chernobyl
Author: Williams, D.
Reference: European Journal of Cancer, 37 (Supplement 6), p.S136, Apr 2001
doi: 10.1016/S0959-8049(01)80990-4
Keywords:
Abstract: …differences in the management of patient with cancer. The aim of this study was to define…the clinical management of patients with cancer. Methods: A questionnaire was developed…decision process in the management of cancer. Each questionnaire presented a simulated…
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959804901809904
