Age distribution of childhood thyroid cancer patients in Ukraine after Chernobyl and in Fukushima after the TEPCO-Fukushima Daiichi NPP accident

Thyroid. 2014 Oct;24(10):1547-8. doi: 10.1089/thy.2014.0198. Epub 2014 Aug 14.

Authors

Mykola D Tronko¹, Vladimir A Saenko, Victor M Shpak, Tetiana I Bogdanova, Shinichi Suzuki, Shunichi Yamashita

Affiliation

¹ 1 State Institution "VP Komisarenko Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine," Kiev, Ukraine .

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Age Distribution
Age of Onset
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident*
Child
Child, Preschool
Fukushima Nuclear Accident*
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Japan / epidemiology
Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / diagnostic imaging
Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / epidemiology*
Risk Factors
Thyroid Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
Thyroid Neoplasms / epidemiology*
Time Factors
Ukraine / epidemiology
Ultrasonography