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To evaluate the risk of thyroid cancer in relation to individual radiation dose estimates among individuals exposed to radioactive iodine as children or adolescents after the Chornobyl accident.

July 5, 2006JNCI Journal of the National Cancer InstituteOpen Access

A Cohort Study of Thyroid Cancer and Other Thyroid Diseases After the Chornobyl Accident: Thyroid Cancer in Ukraine Detected During First Screening

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МТМ.D. ТronkoInstitute of Urology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine GHGeoffrey R. HoweUniversity of Limerick BTBogdanova TiV.P. Komisarenko Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism

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Cohort study reveals a dose-dependent increase in thyroid cancer among individuals exposed to Chornobyl fallout as children, highlighting long-term risks of radioactive iodine.

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To evaluate the risk of thyroid cancer in relation to individual radiation dose estimates among individuals exposed to radioactive iodine as children or adolescents after the Chornobyl accident.
Screened 13,127 individuals (out of 32,385 invited; 44% response rate) younger than 18 years of age residing in heavily contaminated regions of Ukraine at the time of the 1986 accident using thyroid ultrasound and palpation between 1998 and 2000.
Estimated individual thyroid radiation doses using post-accident radioactivity measurements combined with personal interviews.
Quantified dose-response relationships using a linear excess relative risk (ERR) model per gray (Gy).
Identified 45 pathologically confirmed thyroid cancer cases during the 1998–2000 screening period.
Demonstrated a strong, monotonic, approximately linear dose-response relationship (P < .001), with an estimated excess relative risk of 5.25 per Gy (95% CI, 1.70 to 27.5).
Estimated that only 11.2 thyroid cancer cases would have occurred without Chornobyl radiation compared to the 45 observed, reflecting a 75% reduction (95% CI, 50% to 93%) in the absence of radiation.

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Тronko et al. (2006) studied this question.

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Cohort study reveals a dose-dependent increase in thyroid cancer among individuals exposed to Chornobyl fallout as children, highlighting long-term risks of radioactive iodine.

A Cohort Study of Thyroid Cancer and Other Thyroid Diseases After the Chornobyl Accident: Thyroid Cancer in Ukraine Detected During First Screening

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