Impact of Uncertainties in Exposure Assessment on Estimates of Thyroid Cancer Risk among Ukrainian Children and Adolescents Exposed from the Chernobyl Accident

Impact of Uncertainties in Exposure Assessment on Estimates of Thyroid Cancer Risk among Ukrainian Children and Adolescents Exposed from the Chernobyl Accident

The 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant remains the most serious nuclear accident in history, and excess thyroid cancers, particularly among those exposed to releases of iodine-131 remain the best-documented sequelae. Failure to take dose-measurement error into account can lead to bia...

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Main Authors: Little, Mark P., Kukush, Alexander G., Masiuk, Sergii V., Shklyar, Sergiy, Carroll, Raymond J., Lubin, Jay H., Kwon, Deukwoo, Brenner, Alina V., Tronko, Mykola D., Mabuchi, Kiyohiko, Bogdanova, Tetiana I., Hatch, Maureen, Zablotska, Lydia B., Tereshchenko, Valeriy P., Ostroumova, Evgenia, Bouville, André C., Drozdovitch, Vladimir, Chepurny, Mykola I., Kovgan, Lina N., Simon, Steven L., Shpak, Victor M., Likhtarev, Ilya A.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3906013/

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