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Risk of Thyroid Nodules in Residents of Belarus Exposed to Chernobyl Fallout as Children and Adolescents.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab
July 2017
Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-9778.
Context: Although radiation exposure is an important predictor of thyroid cancer on diagnosis of a thyroid nodule, the relationship between childhood radiation exposure and thyroid nodules has not been comprehensively evaluated.
Objective: To examine the association between internal I-131 thyroid dose and thyroid nodules in young adults exposed during childhood.
Design, Setting, And Participants: In this cross-sectional study, we screened residents of Belarus aged ≤18 years at the time of the Chernobyl nuclear accident for thyroid disease (median age, 21 years) with thyroid palpation, ultrasonography, blood/urine analysis, and medical follow-up when appropriate.
Non-thyroid cancer incidence in Belarusian residents exposed to Chernobyl fallout in childhood and adolescence: Standardized Incidence Ratio analysis, 1997-2011.
Environ Res
May 2016
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, 9609 Medical Center Drive, MSC 9776, Bethesda, 20892 MD, USA. Electronic address:
Article Synopsis
- After the Chernobyl disaster, researchers looked at health issues in kids exposed to radioactive Iodine-131, especially if they got other types of cancer besides thyroid cancer.
- They studied about 12,000 people from Belarus who were under 18 when the disaster happened and followed them for 15 years to see if they got cancers like leukemia or lymphoma.
- The results showed that there wasn't a big increase in these other cancers, but the researchers still think it’s important to keep checking on these people as they get older.
Impact of Uncertainties in Exposure Assessment on Thyroid Cancer Risk among Persons in Belarus Exposed as Children or Adolescents Due to the Chernobyl Accident.
PLoS One
June 2016
Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America.
Background: The excess incidence of thyroid cancer in Ukraine and Belarus observed a few years after the Chernobyl accident is considered to be largely the result of 131I released from the reactor. Although the Belarus thyroid cancer prevalence data has been previously analyzed, no account was taken of dose measurement error.
Methods: We examined dose-response patterns in a thyroid screening prevalence cohort of 11,732 persons aged under 18 at the time of the accident, diagnosed during 1996-2004, who had direct thyroid 131I activity measurement, and were resident in the most radio-actively contaminated regions of Belarus.
Thyroid mass in children and adolescents living in the most exposed areas to Chernobyl fallout in Belarus.
Radiat Prot Dosimetry
December 2010
The Republican Research Center for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology, 290 Ilicha Street, Gomel 246040, Belarus.
This paper aims to determine the thyroid volumes in children and teenagers living in Gomel and Mogilev Oblasts, which are the areas of Belarus that were most affected by the Chernobyl accident. Results of thyroid volume measurements performed in 1991-1996 by the Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundation were used to evaluate the variation by age of the thyroid volumes for girls and boys aged from 5 to 16 y. Thyroid volumes for age groups without measurements were also estimated.
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