Conclusion of the Russian Scientific Committee on Radiation protection of the report “incidence of thyroid cancer in Russia after the Chernobyl accident: evaluation of radiation risks according to data of the National radiation-epidemiological registry”, text of scientific article on “Medicine and health protection”.
Author: V.K. Ivanov
Reference: Журнал: Радиация и риск (journal: Radiation and Risk), 2010
Abstract: Aims of the work:
- To approve the assessment work of radiation risks of thyroid cancer in people, living in contaminated territories by the Chernobyl accident, administered by the MRRC RAMS (National Radiation and Epidemiological Registry
- Take note of the main results of large-scale radiation epidemiological studies conducted in the years 1991-2008 on the population of Bryansk, Kaluga, Orel and Tula regions, according to which:
– A group of radiation risk for thyroid cancer should include children and adolescents (0-17 years at the time of the Chernobyl accident);
– No significant radiation risk of thyroid cancer among adult (at the time of the Chernobyl accident) population has been found…