The incidence of malignant neoplasms among members of liquidation of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident
Author: A.R. Islamova
Reference: Dissertation, 2004
Keywords: men, women, different characteristics, health conditions
Abstract: The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, is unprecedented in scale of disaster, which resulted in succession of combined effects of a number of pathogenic factors to a huge population of people, which, in the first place, is attributed to ionizing radiation. Thus one of the major social object is to monitor the demographic-medical situation in individual populations. The most exposed and one of the largest categories of the population affected by the Chernobyl accident are the so-called “liquidators”. Majority of liquidators are men. At the same time, about 6,000 women who took part in liquidation of the Chernobyl accident are registered in the Russian State Medical Dosimetry Registry (RSMDR). These women are group of people with certain conditions and doses of external and internal exposure, initial state of health and other characteristics that are different from those of the male population of the liquidators and require further study and analysis.
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