Czech Republic 20 years after Chernobyl accident.
The territory of the Czech Republic was contaminated as a result of the breakdown in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986. The Czech population received low doses of ionising radiation which, though it could not cause a deterministic impact, could have had stochastic effects expressed in the years following the accident. Twenty years after the accident is a long enough time to assess its stochastic effects, primarily tumours and genetic impairment. The moderate amount of radioactive fallout received by the Czech population in 1986 increased thyroid cancer in the following years; on the other hand, no obvious genetic impact was found.
Rosina
Jozef
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Department of Medical Biophysics and Medical Informatics, Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Ruská 87, 100 42 Prague 10, Czech Republic.
Kvasnák
Eugen
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Suta
Daniel
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Kostrhun
Tomás
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Drábová
Dana
D
D000398:Air Pollution, Radioactive; D047852:Chernobyl Nuclear Accident; D018153:Czech Republic; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D005506:Food Contamination; D006801:Humans; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology*; D055848:Nuclear Power Plants; D009688:Nuclear Reactors; D011210:Power Plants; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011839:Radiation, Ionizing; D011847:Radioactive Fallout; D012307:Risk Factors; D012990:Soil Pollutants, Radioactive; D013997:Time Factors
D011847:Radioactive Fallout; D012990:Soil Pollutants, Radioactive