Title: Cancer incidence in Ukraine after the Chernobyl accident
Author: Prysyazhnyuk, Anatoly Ye. / Gulak, Ludmila O. / Gristchenko, Vladimir G. / Fedorenko, Zoya P.
Reference: International Congress Series, 1234, p.281-291, May 2002
doi: 10.1016/S0531-5131(01)00617-3
Keywords: Cancer incidence rate; Standardized incidence ratio; Dose of radiation; Contaminated area ; Emergency worker; Evacuee ; Population
Abstract: We analyzed the temporal trend in cancer incidence rate in different groups of Ukrainian population affected by the Chernobyl accident using the data obtained from the following two main information sources: (1) local cancer registry, which was established in 1987 and covers 150,000 population in the most radio-contaminated areas close to Chernobyl; and (2) state registry of people affected by the Chernobyl accident….
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0531513101006173
Title: Reconstruction of thyroid doses for the population of Belarus following the Chernobyl accident
Author: Gavrilin, Y.I. / Khrouch, V.T. / Shinkarev, S.M. [Inst. of Biophsics, Ministry of Public Health and Medical Industry SSSR, Moscow (Russian Federation)] / Minenko, V.F. / Drozdovich, V.V. / Ulanovsky, A.V. [Research Inst. of Radiation Medicine, Ministry of Health, Minsk (Belarus)] / Bouville, A.C. [National Inst. of Health, Bethesda, MD (United States). Radiation Effects Branch] / (…) / Straume, T. [Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)]
Reference: Conference on health consequences of the Chernobyl and other radiological accidents, Geneva (Switzerland), 20-23 Nov 1995; Other Information: PBD: Sep 1995
Abstract: As a sequela to the large release of {sup 131}I from the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, an expected late effect is thyroid cancer, especially in children. In anticipation of this problem, hundreds of thousands of measurements of thyroid glands were made with survey meters. Much attention was also focused on measuring the deposition density of {sup 137}Cs. The expectation was that the latter measurement could be a good surrogate for the deposition density of {sup 131}I, so that ecological models could be used to reconstruct thyroid doses in locations where no direct measurements of thyroid activity were made…
URL: http://www.osti.gov/bridge/product.biblio.jsp?query_id=2&page=0&osti_id=110803
Title: Health effects of the Chernobyl accident: fears, rumours and the truth ☆ ☆ This review is based on a keynote lecture at the 24th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Cancer Registries held on 25–27 June 2002 in Tampere, Finland.
Author: Rahu, Mati
Reference: European Journal of Cancer, 39 (3), p.295-299, Feb 2003
doi: 10.1016/S0959-8049(02)00764-5
Keywords: Chernobyl; Health effects; Thyroid cancer; Epidemiological research ; Disease registries Challenges
Abstract: The impact of the world’s worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in 1986 is reviewed within a framework of a triad of fear, rumour and truth. The scope of the accident, Soviet secrecy about it, and the lack of general awareness of, or disregard for, the effects of radiation created a fertile ground for persistent fears and rumours attributing any health problem to Chernobyl. Scientifically correct answers to health issues have been the means to combat disinformation, and to replace interconnected fears, misconceptions and rumours…
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959804902007645
Title: What Have We Learnt From Chernobyl? What Have We Still To Learn?
Author: Thomas, G.A. / Tronko, M.D. / Tsyb, A.F. / Tuttle, R.M.
Reference: Clinical Oncology, 23 (4), p.229-233, May 2011
doi: 10.1016/j.clon.2011.02.001
Abstract: …rearrangement in post-Chernobyl thyroid cancer, suggesting that some…gene (PTC3) in post-Chernobyl papillary thyroid cancer may reflect the association…Clinical Outcome of Post-Chernobyl Thyroid Cancer Different from that of…
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0936655511005449
Title: The Chernobyl Accident — An Epidemiological Perspective
Author: Cardis, E. / Hatch, M.
Reference: Clinical Oncology, 23 (4), p.251-260, May 2011
doi: 10.1016/j.clon.2011.01.510
Keywords: Cancer; cataracts; cardiovascular diseases; Chernobyl accident; radiation; thyroid cancer
Abstract: Twenty-five years have passed since radioactive releases from the Chernobyl nuclear accident led to the exposure of millions of people in Europe. Studies of affected populations have provided important new data on the links between radiation and cancer—particularly the risk of thyroid tumours from exposure to iodine isotopes—that are important not only for a fuller scientific understanding of radiation effects, but also for radiation protection. It is now well documented that children and adolescents exposed to radioiodines from Chernobyl fallout have a sizeable dose-related increase in thyroid cancer, with the risk greatest in those youngest at exposure and with a suggestion that deficiency in stable iodine may increase the risk….
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0936655511005425
Title: 165 Present Status of Childhood Thyroid Carcinoma in Belarus…
Author: Akira SUGENOYA, Yuri E. DEMIDCHIK, Evgeny P. DEMIDCHIK
Reference: [PDF-65K]Oct 2002 Belarus National Thyroid Cancer Canter
Abstract: …related to the Chernobyl accident was only thyroid cancer in children for…Belarus after Chernobyl The number of patients with thyroid cancer in both children…et.al., Thyroid Cancer after Chernobyl, Nature 359…
URL: http://www.rri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/NSRG/reports/kr21/kr21pdf/Sugenoya.pdf
Title: Summary of the cytological diagnosis of childhood thyroid diseases around Chernobyl
Author: Ito, Masahiro / Yamashita, Shunichi
Reference: International Congress Series, 1234, p.185-192, May 2002
doi: 10.1016/S0531-5131(01)00607-0
Keywords: Thyroid cancer; Cytology; Childhood; Fine-needle aspiration biopsy
Abstract: A combination of ultrasonography and fine-needle aspiration biopsy was performed in the screening project on children around Chernobyl. The aspirated materials from 446 cases were analyzed cytologically. The ultrasonographical screening revealed a 2.9% prevalence of thyroid abnormalities. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNA), conducted in 446 cases, revealed the following diseases: papillary carcinoma, 7.2%; follicular neoplasm, 10.3%; adenomatous goiter, 22.4%; chronic thyroiditis, 26.2%; and cyst, 22.9%….
URL:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0531513101006070
Title: Validation of 131 I ecological transfer models and thyroid dose assessments using Chernobyl fallout data from the Plavsk district, Russia
Author: Zvonova, I. / Krajewski, P. / Berkovsky, V. / Ammann, M. / Duffa, C. / Filistovic, V. / Homma, T. / (…) / Webbe-Wood, D.
Reference: Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 101 (1), p.8-15, Jan 2010
doi: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2009.08.005
Keywords: Chernobyl accident; Iodine-131; Environment modeling; Models validation; Population; Thyroid dose
Abstract: Within the project “Environmental Modelling for Radiation Safety” (EMRAS) organized by the IAEA in 2003 experimental data of 131I measurements following the Chernobyl accident in the Plavsk district of Tula region, Russia were used to validate the calculations of some radioecological transfer models. Nine models participated in the inter-comparison. Levels of 137Cs soil contamination in all the settlements and 131I/137Cs isotopic ratios in the depositions in some locations were used as the main input information. 370 measurements of 131I content in thyroid of townspeople and villagers, and 90 measurements of 131I concentration in milk were used for validation of the model predictions….
URL:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265931X09001751
Title: Risk of radiogenic malignant and benign thyroid diseases for the population of the Oryol oblast after the Chernobyl accident: outcome of large-scale epidemiological studies
Author: Ivanov, Victor K / Tsyb, Anatoly F / Chekin, Sergey Yu / Parshin, Vladimir S / Maksioutov, Marat A / Saenko, Alexander S / Sevankaev, Alexander V / (…) / Vlasov, Oleg K
doi: 10.1016/S0531-5131(03)01144-0
Keywords: Oryol oblast; Chernobyl accident; Thyroid dose; Radiation risk
Abstract: Due to the Chernobyl accident, the following four oblasts of the Russian Federation—Bryansk, Oryol, Tula and Kaluga—were contaminated with radionuclides at the utmost. In the paper, the problem of the assessment of risk for the development of radiogenic malignant and benign thyroid diseases among the population of the Oryol oblast is discussed. Mean thyroid dose to the residents of the Oryol oblast was 46.3 mGy for children and 10.9 mGy for adults….
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0531513103011440
Title: Chernobyl-related ionising radiation exposure and cancer risk: an epidemiological review
Author: Moysich, Kirsten B / Menezes, Ravi J / Michalek, Arthur M
Reference: The Lancet Oncology, 3 (5), p.269-279, May 2002
doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(02)00727-1
Abstract: The Chernobyl nuclear accident on 26th April, 1986, led to a massive release of radionuclides into the environment. Although vast areas of Europe were affected by Chernobyl-related ionising radiation, the accident had the greatest impact in Belarus, Ukraine, and the Russian Federation. Epidemiological studies that have investigated the link between the Chernobyl accident and cancer have largely focused on malignant diseases in children, specifically thyroid cancer and leukaemia….
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470204502007271
