Comment25 years after Chernobyl: lessons for Japan?
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2022, Environment InternationalCitation Excerpt :As noted in the Supplementary Methods, many thyroid doses and dose rates were very high, so that the screening studies of these populations, recently reviewed by Hatch and Cardis (Hatch and Cardis 2017) are outside the scope of the present review. The mean ABM dose from Chernobyl exposure, mainly external gamma radiation from deposited radiocaesium, was just 10 mGy and the study of childhood leukaemia in the Chernobyl-exposed populations has been problematical (Davis et al. 2006): there were concerns about the representativeness of the controls in the Ukrainian part of the study (Davis et al. 2006; Moysich et al. 2011), which led to a further case-control study being conducted in Ukraine that produced a substantially lower risk estimate (Noshchenko et al. 2010) (Table 5). The positive findings for thyroid cancer and benign neoplasms in the Nevada fallout study (Lyon et al. 2006) are also consistent with studies of exposures at slightly higher (but still low) levels of external dose (Lubin et al. 2017) (Tables 2, 5).
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2014, Side Effects of Drugs AnnualCitation Excerpt :There was also an association with dysphagia. Tumorigenicity Following the nuclear accident at Chernobyl on 26 April, 1986, the major radionuclides released were radioactive iodine (131I) and cesium (134Cs and 137Cs), and to a lesser extent radioactive strontium (89Sr and 90Sr) and plutonium (234Pu) [67R]. In 11 970 individuals in Belarus who were aged 18 years or younger at the time of the Chernobyl reactor accident and who had estimated doses of 131I to the thyroid of under 5 Gy, the dose-response relation to the risk of thyroid cancer was linear (n = 85), but at higher doses the excess risk fell [68c].
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