Ten-year Chernobyl aid programmes of the Otto Hug Strahleninstitut-MHM: treatment and research projects on thyroid cancer in Belarus
Author: Lengfelder, Edmund / Demidchik, Evgueni P. / Demidchik, Yuri E. / Sidorov, Yury D. / Gedrevich, Zigmund E. / Birukova, Ludmila W. / Gamolina, Larisa I. / (…) / Frenzel, Christine
Reference: International Congress Series, 1234, p.201-204, May 2002
doi: 10.1016/S0531-5131(01)00609-4
Keywords: Chernobyl; Thyroid cancer; Thyroid pathology; Medical care; Tissue bank
Abstract: The unexpected serious increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer following the reactor accident in Chernobyl led to considerable research efforts from abroad and the support of Belarus in order to mitigate these health problems. In 1991, the Otto Hug Strahleninstitut-MHM (Otto Hug Radiation Institute), a German non-governmental medical–scientific charity organization, started several long-term aid programmes and treatment and research projects on thyroid cancer and other diseases of this organ. Since 1993, the project “Thyroid Center Gomel” had more than 70 000 patients from this region for the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid diseases including cancer. …More than 6500 thyroid tumours were diagnosed, preparing over 30 000 pathological slides. In 1997, the project of “Radioiodine Therapy” started in Gomel, giving treatment to more than 450 patients since that time. …
URL:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0531513101006094
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