Childhood leukemia in Belarus before and after the Chernobyl accident.
Childhood leukemia (ICD 204-208 [1]) incidence rates in the different regions of Belarus are reported for a period before and after the Chernobyl accident (1982-1994). There are, at this point, no recognizable trends towards higher rates.
Ivanov
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EP
Research Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Minsk, Republic of Belarus.
Tolochko
G V
GV
Shuvaeva
L P
LP
Becker
S
S
Nekolla
E
E
Kellerer
A M
AM
D000293:Adolescent; D017677:Age Distribution; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007938:Leukemia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D011210:Power Plants; D018788:Radioactive Hazard Release; D002094:Republic of Belarus / Q000453:epidemiology; D017678:Sex Distribution; D014455:Ukraine