Impact of Uncertainties in Exposure Assessment on Thyroid Cancer Risk among Persons in Belarus Exposed as Children or Adolescents Due to the Chernobyl Accident.

Impact of Uncertainties in Exposure Assessment on Thyroid Cancer Risk among Persons in Belarus Exposed as Children or Adolescents Due to the Chernobyl Accident.

<h4>Background</h4>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, n...

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Main Authors: Mark P Little, Deukwoo Kwon, Lydia B Zablotska, Alina V Brenner, Elizabeth K Cahoon, Alexander V Rozhko, Olga N Polyanskaya, Victor F Minenko, Ivan Golovanov, André Bouville, Vladimir Drozdovitch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0139826&type=printable
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