Present Status of Childhood Thyroid Carcinoma in Belarus following the Chernobyl Accident
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In April, 1996, a joint international conference ("One Decade after Chernobyl") was held in Vienna, Austria in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Commission (EC). In this meeting, they came to the conclusion that the abnormality of health condition definitely related to the Chernobyl accident was only thyroid cancer in children for the moment. On the other hand, they reported that it would be too early to give comments scientifically on leukemia and other disorders. It has been already known that the incidence of pediatric thyroid cancer in Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation is rapidly increasing after 1990. About 800 children in these 3 CIS countries have been treated surgically until the end of 1995. More than half of them were found in Belarus. Furthermore,
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Childhood thyroid cancer in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine after Chernobyl and at present.
Thyroid cancer in children is usually rare, but in the individuals exposed to radiation risk of disease increases considerably. After the Chernobyl accident in 1986, an over 10-fold maximal elevation in the incidence of thyroid cancer was registered about a decade later, cumulatively resulting in more than a thousand of newly diagnosed cases in children who lived in the territories of Belarus, ...
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