Childhood thyroid cancer in Belarus
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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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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/359681a0