Echo of Chernobyl: Thyroid cancer

Reference: 25 April, 2010

Keywords: registry of the Russian government

Abstract: The echo of the Chernobyl, after 20 years, disaster resulted in a dramatic increase of thyroid cancer. For the inhabitants of Byansk, Tuly, Kaluzh and Orlov regions, the Russian government provides special Chernobyl registry: they can take interview of the thyroid gland.

URL: http://www.1tv.ru/prj/zdorovie/vypusk/4202

Middle dose of exposure on the thyroid gland in people, of different ages, who lived in Bryansk, Tul’sk, Orlovsk and Kaluzhsk regions, in 1986, which were contaminated due to the Chernobyl accident

Reference: «Радиация и риск» (Radiation and Risk), 2002

Keywords: Bryansk, Tul’sk, Kaluzhsk, Orlovsk, different ages

URL: http://www.nrer.ru/radrisk_2001.html