Thyroid dose estimates for a cohort of Belarusian children exposed to radiation from the Chernobyl accident.

ABSTRACT: The U.S. National Cancer Institute, in collaboration with the Belarusian Ministry of Health, is conducting a study of thyroid cancer and other thyroid diseases in a cohort of about 12,000 persons who were exposed to fallout from the Chernobyl accident in April 1986. The study subjects were 18 years old or younger at the time of exposure and resided in Belarus in the most contaminated areas of the Gomel and Mogilev Oblasts, as well as in the city of Minsk. All cohort members had at least one direct thyroid measurement made in April-June 1986. Individual data on residential history, consumption of milk, milk products and leafy vegetables as well as administration of stable iodine were collected for all cohort members by means of personal interviews conducted between 1996 and 2007. Based on t

SUBMITTER: Drozdovitch V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3682838 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature