EUR02_4_3_Health_Consequences_chernobyl.doc
Title: EUR02_4_3_Health_Consequences_chernobyl.doc
Author: M. Tirmarche O. Catelinois
Reference: [PDF-96K]Aug 2008 Assessment of the health consequences of the Chernobyl accident in France
Abstract: During the last years, several reports in the media and the publication of a map of environmental radioactive contamination spots linked to the Chernobyl fallout in France rose the concern of a potential public health effect in French populations. Several thyroid cancer patients are convinced that their disease is related to the radioactive fallout of 1986. Thyroid cancer is a rare disease : in 2000, it represents approximately 1.5 % of new incident cancers in France. This incidence has been multiplied by 5.2 in men and 2.7 in women during the last 20 years. French health authorities asked IRSN to test the feasibility of an epidemiological study able to demonstrate a link between Chernobyl and thyroid cancer increase in France. …
URL: http://www.eurosafe-forum.org/files/euro2_4_3_health_consequences_chernobyl.pdf
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