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Wakeford
Chernobyl--20 years on.Wakeford R. J Radiol Prot. 2006 Jun;26(2):125-6. Epub 2006 Apr 24. [citation only]
"Much attention has been paid to the possible effects on health of the resulting exposure to radiation, but the rapidity of the appearance and the magnitude of the excess cases of childhood thyroid cancer in the heavily contaminated areas of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia took most people by surprise. The striking excess of thyroid cancer among those exposed as children is undoubtedly attributable to the high thyroid doses received from radioiodine released during the accident; but many of these cases might have been prevented by the swift administration of stable iodine to block the uptake of the short-lived radioisotopes of iodine (as occurred in the town of Pripyat, close to Chernobyl) and especially by the prevention of the consumption of contaminated foodstuffs, in particular milk....Apart from thyroid cancer, what health effects attributable to the Chernobyl accident have been found so far? In the general population, there are indications of excess cases of childhood leukaemia and breast cancer among those living in the heavily contaminated regions of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia, although the evidence is still equivocal....Of course, the most heavily exposed emergency workers received doses that were sufficiently high to kill them in the weeks and months after the accident, but the doses received by the many recovery workers used to clean up Chernobyl once the release of radioactivity had ceased were sufficient for an excess risk of leukaemia to be detected."
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