Abstract
The children's thyroid exposure to radioiodine is one of the most serious consequences of the Chernobyl accident. The collective dose to children aged 0-18 in the entire Ukraine was estimated to be 400000 person-Gy. The dose estimates were calculated on the basis of measurements of thyroid content of {sup 131}I for about 108000 people in Ukraine aged 0-18 years in May-June 1986. Up to the end of 1994, 542 thyroid cancers throughout the Ukraine have been reported in children and young adults who were aged 0-18 at the time of the accident. Rates of thyroid cancer have climbed, from about 0.7 per million children aged 0-14 in 1986 to more 7 per million in 1994. Rates increased most in region closest to Pripyat'. Between 1990 and 1994, 9 of the 14,580 people who had been children at the time of the accident in Pripyat' developed thyroid cancer. This corresponds to an annual incidence of 123 cases per million persons. The estimated average thyroid dose in Ukrainian children varies by several orders of magnitude. There is a more than 30-fold gradient in thyroid cancer incidence rates corresponding to the gradient in thyroid doses from {sup 131}I. A preliminary investigation shows an
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Sobolev, B;
Likhtarev, I;
Kairo, I;
[1]
Tronko, N;
Oleynik, V;
Bogdanova, T
[2]
- The Research Center of Radiation Medicine, AMS of Ukraine, Kiev (Ukraine)
- The Research Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism, AMS of Ukraine, Kiev (Ukraine)
Citation Formats
Sobolev, B, Likhtarev, I, Kairo, I, Tronko, N, Oleynik, V, and Bogdanova, T.
Radiation risk assessment of the thyroid cancer in Ukrainian children exposed due to Chernobyl.
Belarus: N. p.,
1996.
Web.
Sobolev, B, Likhtarev, I, Kairo, I, Tronko, N, Oleynik, V, & Bogdanova, T.
Radiation risk assessment of the thyroid cancer in Ukrainian children exposed due to Chernobyl.
Belarus.
Sobolev, B, Likhtarev, I, Kairo, I, Tronko, N, Oleynik, V, and Bogdanova, T.
1996.
"Radiation risk assessment of the thyroid cancer in Ukrainian children exposed due to Chernobyl."
Belarus.
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title = {Radiation risk assessment of the thyroid cancer in Ukrainian children exposed due to Chernobyl}
author = {Sobolev, B, Likhtarev, I, Kairo, I, Tronko, N, Oleynik, V, and Bogdanova, T}
abstractNote = {The children's thyroid exposure to radioiodine is one of the most serious consequences of the Chernobyl accident. The collective dose to children aged 0-18 in the entire Ukraine was estimated to be 400000 person-Gy. The dose estimates were calculated on the basis of measurements of thyroid content of {sup 131}I for about 108000 people in Ukraine aged 0-18 years in May-June 1986. Up to the end of 1994, 542 thyroid cancers throughout the Ukraine have been reported in children and young adults who were aged 0-18 at the time of the accident. Rates of thyroid cancer have climbed, from about 0.7 per million children aged 0-14 in 1986 to more 7 per million in 1994. Rates increased most in region closest to Pripyat'. Between 1990 and 1994, 9 of the 14,580 people who had been children at the time of the accident in Pripyat' developed thyroid cancer. This corresponds to an annual incidence of 123 cases per million persons. The estimated average thyroid dose in Ukrainian children varies by several orders of magnitude. There is a more than 30-fold gradient in thyroid cancer incidence rates corresponding to the gradient in thyroid doses from {sup 131}I. A preliminary investigation shows an excess in the annual incidence rate of thyroid cancer, throughout the northern territory of Ukraine, corresponding to the average doses to thyroid from {sup 131}I. Coefficients of regression of excess cancers versus thyroid dose have been calculated.}
place = {Belarus}
year = {1996}
month = {Jul}
}
title = {Radiation risk assessment of the thyroid cancer in Ukrainian children exposed due to Chernobyl}
author = {Sobolev, B, Likhtarev, I, Kairo, I, Tronko, N, Oleynik, V, and Bogdanova, T}
abstractNote = {The children's thyroid exposure to radioiodine is one of the most serious consequences of the Chernobyl accident. The collective dose to children aged 0-18 in the entire Ukraine was estimated to be 400000 person-Gy. The dose estimates were calculated on the basis of measurements of thyroid content of {sup 131}I for about 108000 people in Ukraine aged 0-18 years in May-June 1986. Up to the end of 1994, 542 thyroid cancers throughout the Ukraine have been reported in children and young adults who were aged 0-18 at the time of the accident. Rates of thyroid cancer have climbed, from about 0.7 per million children aged 0-14 in 1986 to more 7 per million in 1994. Rates increased most in region closest to Pripyat'. Between 1990 and 1994, 9 of the 14,580 people who had been children at the time of the accident in Pripyat' developed thyroid cancer. This corresponds to an annual incidence of 123 cases per million persons. The estimated average thyroid dose in Ukrainian children varies by several orders of magnitude. There is a more than 30-fold gradient in thyroid cancer incidence rates corresponding to the gradient in thyroid doses from {sup 131}I. A preliminary investigation shows an excess in the annual incidence rate of thyroid cancer, throughout the northern territory of Ukraine, corresponding to the average doses to thyroid from {sup 131}I. Coefficients of regression of excess cancers versus thyroid dose have been calculated.}
place = {Belarus}
year = {1996}
month = {Jul}
}