Children become the first victims of fallout

Article Abstract:

Research indicates that the childhood thyroid cancer rate in the region of Gomel, just north of Chernobyl, Ukraine, reached 30 times the expected rate only 4 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Scientists are trying to isolate the radioactive isotopes that caused the increased cancer rate.

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Chernobyl research become international growth industry

Article Abstract:

Since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, local researchers have welcomed international funds and collaboration to study the health consequences of protracted, low-level radiation exposure that resulted from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1987.

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Chernobyl's thyroid cancer toll

Article Abstract:

Research indicates that radioactive iodine caused the increase in childhood thyroid cancer following the Chernobyl disaster. Environmental pollution and genetic factors may have played a role in the explosive nature of the epidemic.

Causes of, Cancer in children, Childhood cancer, Iodine, Radiation victims, Radioiodine

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