Nuclear-power-plant accidents: thyroid cancer incidence and radiation-related health effects from the Chernobyl accident |
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| Authors: | Schlumberger Martin Le Guen Bernard |
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| Affiliation: | Université Paris-Sud, service de médecine nucléaire et cancérologie endocrinienne, Institut Gustave Roussy, 94805 Villejuif Cedex, France. martin.schlumberger@igr.fr |
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| Abstract: | Following the Chernobyl accident, enormous amounts of radioisotopes were released in the atmosphere and have contaminated surrounding populations in the absence of rapid protective countermeasures. The highest radiation doses were delivered to the thyroid gland, and the only direct consequence of radiation exposure observed among contaminated population is the increased incidence of thyroid cancers among subjects who were children in 1986 and who lived at that time in Belarus, Ukraine or Russia. |
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