Thyroid dose and thyroid cancer incidence after the Chernobyl accident: Assessments for the Zhytomyr region (Ukraine)

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 261-273

  Goulko, G M ^a   Chepurny, N I ^b   Jacob, P ^a   Kairo, I A ^b   Likhtarev, I A ^b   Prohl G ^a   Sobolev, B G ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b STATE INSTITUTION NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR RADIATION MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; THYROID CANCER; UKRAINE;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RURAL POPULATION; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UKRAINE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0031981748     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004110050081     Document Type: Article

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