Major Factors Affecting Incidence of Childhood Thyroid Cancer in Belarus after the Chernobyl Accident: Do Nitrates in Drinking Water Play a Role?

One of the major health consequences of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident in 1986 was a dramatic increase in incidence of thyroid cancer among those who were aged less than 18 years at the time of the accident. This increase has been directly linked in several analytic epidemiological studi...

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Main Authors: Valentina M Drozd, Vladimir A Saenko, Alina V Brenner, Vladimir Drozdovitch, Vasilii I Pashkevich, Anatoliy V Kudelsky, Yuri E Demidchik, Igor Branovan, Nikolay Shiglik, Tatiana I Rogounovitch, Shunichi Yamashita, Johannes Biko, Christoph Reiners
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137226