Thyroid сancer among former “Chernobyl Children”: is it still actual 30 years after Chernobyl catastrophe?

[Chernobyl: 20 years after].

Sl. 1 − Reaktor br. 4 nuklearne elektrane kod Černobilja posle eksplozije

Effects of the Chernobyl Catastrophe

On Saturday, April 26th, 1986 at 1:23 am, Block 4 of the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl exploded. The plant was located approximately 100 km north of the Ukrainian capital Kiev, near the border with Belarus. 180,000 kilograms of highly radioactive material is inside the reactor at the time an amount equal to 1,000 Hiroshima bombs. About 1019 Bq of radioactive material – consisting of at least...

Benign Thyroid Diseases among Chernobyl Liquidators.

Seventeen years have passed since the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The only clear evidence of the result of this accident is that a dramatic increase of thyroid cancer has been observed after the accident among residents who were exposed by radiation-fallout at a young age [1]. However, the radiation risk for adults around Chernobyl remains unclear. Besides such effects among ...

Glioblastoma in a former Chernobyl resident 24 years later.

Chernobyl and thyroid cancer.

The most dramatic effect of exposure to fallout from the Chernobyl accident on physical health has been the increase in thyroid cancer. When this was first reported 1,2, there was scepticism in Europe and the US, as it was not thought plausible that exposure to radio-isotopes of iodine in fallout could lead to such an increase in thyroid cancer with such a short latency. This review will discus...