Childhood thyroid cancer since accident at Chernobyl

BMJ 1995;310:801 (25 March)

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Childhood thyroid cancer since accident at Chernobyl

EDITOR,--We wish to report on a meeting of scientists from thethree countries most closely affected by the accident at Chernobyland from the World Health Organisation to review the programmeof screening for and diagnosis of childhood thyroid cancer undertakensince the accident in April 1986. While the central purposeof the screening programme was humanitarian, during the reviewsome of the information compiled was deemed to be of scientificinterest.

The table shows that, before the accident, the annual incidencesof childhood cancer were in line with spontaneous rates in manyother parts of the world. For example, the rate observed during1962-92 in England and Wales was about 0.5/million (E D Williams,personal communication).

In Belarus (population about 10 million), where the increasehas been most pronounced, more than half the cases are reportedfrom the Gomel region immediately to the north of Chernobyl(figure). Nearly all . . . [Full text of this article]

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