FEATURES One decade after Chernobyl: The basis for decisions A major international conference sums up the scientific understanding of the Chernobyl accident’s major consequences …
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Keywords: children diagnosis
Abstract: A highly significant increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer among those persons in the affected areas who were children in 1986 is the only clear evidence to date of a public health impact of radiation exposure caused by the Chernobyl accident. (In 1991, the report on the International Chernobyl Project had stated that “it is expected that there will be a radiogenic excess of thyroid cancer cases in the decades to come. This risk relates to thyroid doses received in the first months after the accident…” *.) This increase in incidence has been observed in Belarus and to a lesser extent in Ukraine and in the Russian Federation. The number of reported cases up to the end of 1995 is about 800 in children under 15 years old at the time of diagnosis; more than 400 of these cases were in Belarus. In most cases the diagnoses have been confirmed by international experts. …
URL: http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull383/38304781423.pdf