Thyroid cancer in children
Author: E.P. Demidchik, Yu.E. Demidchik, V.Ya. Rebeko
Reference: Materials of the Intern. Scientific. Symposium “Medical aspects of radiation effects onto the population, living in contaminated territory after the Chernobyl accident”, Gomel, 6-7 May, 1994
Keywords: Belorussia, clinical experience
Abstract: Before the Chernobyl accident the incidence of thyroid cancer had been rare. After the accident the situation changed. Such incidence in children increased in the southern regions of the country, located near Chernobyl NPP. Experts consider that the increase was caused by radioiodine absorbed through inhalation or food. Clinical experience shows that the flow of thyroid cancer is more aggressive in children.