| Thyroid cancer
rose after Chernobyl
Researchers report
hard proof that the incidence of childhood thyroid cancer in northern
Ukraine has soared since the nuclear accident at Chernobyl in 1986
released radioactive pollution, including iodine.
References:
Tronko, M.D. ...
and V.A. LiVolsi. 1999. Thyroid carcinoma in children and adolescents
in Ukraine after the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Cancer 86(July
1):149.
Further Readings:
Kazakov, V., E.
Demidchik, and L. Astakhova. 1992. Thyroid cancer after Chernobyl. Nature
359:21.
Likhtarev, I.A., et
al. 1995. Thyroid cancer in the Ukraine. Nature 375:365.
Sources:
Virginia A.
LiVolsi
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
3400 Spruce Street
6 Founders Pavilion
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283
From Science
News, Vol. 156, No. 6, August 7, 1999, p. 95. Copyright © 1999,
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