Thyroid cancer study among Ukrainian children exposed to radiation after the Chornobyl accident: Improved estimates of the thyroid doses to the cohort members

Health Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 370-396

  Likhtarov, Ilya ^a   Kovgan, Lina ^a   Masiuk, Sergii ^a   Talerko, Mykola ^b   Chepurny, Mykola ^a   Ivanova, Olga ^a   Gerasymenko, Valentina ^a   Boyko, Zulfira ^a   Voillequé, Paul ^c   Drozdovitch, Vladimir ^d   Bouville, André ^d  

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

^b National Academy of Science of Ukraine   (Ukraine)

^c MJP Risk Assessment Inc   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

131I; Chernobyl; Dose assessment; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; THYROID TUMOR; UKRAINE;

ADOLESCENT; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION DOSAGE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UKRAINE;

EID: 84897597520     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: 15385159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HP.0b013e31829f3096     Document Type: Article

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