Age distribution of childhood thyroid cancer patients in ukraine after chernobyl and in fukushima after the TEPCO-fukushima daiichi NPP accident

摘要

The epidemic of thyroid cancer among children exposed to radiation is a worldwide known health consequence of the Chernobyl accident, which took place on April 26, 1986. In Ukraine, a sharp increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer was observed since 1990, and had been preceded by a so-called period of latency during which no significant raise in baseline incidence was registered (1). Current interpretation of the cases in young patients detected during the period of latency in Chernobyl areas is that they were not due to radiation