[Assessment of oncogenic risk of the irradiation of the thyroid gland in humans].

  • 1 January 1991
    • journal article
    • research article
    • No. 8,p. 32-6
Abstract
The paper deals with one of the most urgent aspects of irradiation hygiene, namely assessment of risk for irradiation-induced cancers of the thyroid. A model is described to predict high mortality rates of thyroidal cancer in the population due to the catastrophe at the Chernobyl Atomic Power Station. With the model, life-time risk rates involving sex and age at the moment of irradiation, as well as an irradiation mode.

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