Thyroid cancer in Ukraine after the Chernobyl accident
Title: Summaries of articles in this issue Thyroid cancer in Ukraine after the Chernobyl accident
Author: W F Heidenreich
Reference: Journal of Radiological Protection, 24 (3), Sep 2004
doi: 10.1088/0952-4746/24/3/E01
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Abstract: et al (283–293) The rate of incidence of childhood thyroid cancer in northern Ukraine during 1986–98 is described as a function of time-since-exposure, age-at-exposure and sex. After a minimum latent period of about three years, the excess absolute risk (EAR) coefficient (EAR/Gy) shows a linear rise with time-since-exposure for at least nine years, and is roughly constant with ageat- exposure up to 15 years. The EAR coefficient is greater for girls, by about a factor of two at very young ages, which increases to about five for ages-at-exposure of 16–18 years. In terms of absolute risk, the thyroid of young children is not more sensitive to radiation-induced cancer than the thyroid of older children. Since the background risk of thyroid cancer in increasing with attained age, a constant absolute risk implies a decreasing relative risk.
URL: http://iopscience.iop.org/0952-4746/24/3/E01/pdf/0952-4746_24_3_E01.pdf
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