1. Non-medical exposure to radioiodines and thyroid cancer.
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Hindié E, Leenhardt L, Vitaux F, Colas-Linhart N, Grosclaude P, Galle P, Aurengo A, and Bok B
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- Accidents, Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Aged, Animals, Cesium Radioisotopes adverse effects, Child, Child, Preschool, Disease Susceptibility, Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation, Europe epidemiology, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Food Contamination, Radioactive, Humans, Incidence, Infant, Iodine deficiency, Iodine Radioisotopes pharmacokinetics, Male, Micronesia epidemiology, Middle Aged, Nuclear Reactors, Nuclear Warfare, Radiation Dosage, Radiation Injuries, Experimental etiology, Radioactive Pollutants adverse effects, Republic of Belarus epidemiology, Risk, Technetium adverse effects, Thyroid Gland radiation effects, Thyroid Neoplasms epidemiology, Ukraine epidemiology, Iodine Radioisotopes adverse effects, Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced etiology, Thyroid Neoplasms etiology
- Abstract
The Chernobyl accident, which occurred 32 years after the accidental exposure of Marshall islanders, resulted in the exposure of neighbouring populations to a mixture of iodine isotopes and in an increased incidence of thyroid cancer. The highest thyroid doses were received by the youngest age groups. This review describes the existing evidence, and examines factors that may have increased the risk. It also stresses problems with contemporary thyroid measurements, and the lack of information on the sensitivity of the thyroid to short-lived iodine isotopes and iodine-131. Practical considerations for nuclear physicians, epidemiologists and thyroidologists are discussed in the light of this major accident.
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- 2002
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