A cohort study of thyroid cancer and other thyroid diseases after the Chornobyl accident: Objectives, design and methods

Radiation Research

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 481-492

  Stezhko, Valentin A ^a   Buglova, Elena E ^b   Danilova, Larissa I ^c   Drozd, Valentina M ^b   Krysenko, Nikolaj A ^d   Lesnikova, Nadia R ^b   Minenko, Victor F ^b   Ostapenko, Vladislav A ^b   Petrenko, Sergey V ^b   Polyanskaya, Olga N ^b   Rzheutski, Valery A ^e   Tronko, Mykola D ^f   Bobylyova, Olga O ^g   Bogdanova, Tetyana I ^f   Ephstein, Ovsiy V ^f   Kairo, Iryna A ^h   Kostin, Olexander V ^f   Likhtarev, Ilya A ^h   Markov, Valentin V ^f   Oliynik, Valery A ^f   Shpak, Viktor M ^f   Tereshchenko, Valeriy P ^f   Zamotayeva, Galina A ^f   Beebe, Gilbert W ⁱ   Bouville, Andre C ⁱ   Brill, Aaron B ^j   Burch, John D ^k   Fink, Daniel J ^k   Greenebaum, Ellen ^l   Howe, Geoffrey R ^k   Luckyanov, Nickolas K ⁱ   Masnyk, Ihor J ⁱ   McConnell, Robert J ^l   Robbins, Jacob ^m   Thomas, Terry L ⁱ   Voillequé, Paul G ⁿ   Zablotska, Lydia B ^k   more..

^a Ministry of Health Republic of Belarus   (Belarus)

^b Research Institute of Radiation Medicine   (Belarus)

^c INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS   (Belarus)

^d Health Care Administration of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee   (Belarus)

^e National Dispensary of Radiation Medicine   (Belarus)

^f V P Komisarenko Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism of the Ukraine Academy of Medical Sciences   (Ukraine)

^g Ministry of Health of Ukraine   (Ukraine)

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

ⁱ NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^j VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^l National Institutes of Health ^*  (United States)

^m NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

ⁿ MJP Risk Assessment Inc   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ARTICLE; BELARUS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MASS SCREENING; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EPIDEMIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THYROID CANCER; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID GLAND; UKRAINE; X RAY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOMETRY; RISK; THYROID TUMOR; TIME;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; POWER PLANTS; RADIOMETRY; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; UKRAINE;

EID: 17444443107     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/3148     Document Type: Article

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