title: [Nuclear-power-plant accidents: thyroid cancer incidence and radiation-related health effects from the Chernobyl accident].
abstract: Following the Chernobyl accident, enormous amounts of radioisotopes were released in the atmosphere and have contaminated surrounding populations in the absence of rapid protective countermeasures. The highest radiation doses were delivered to the thyroid gland, and the only direct consequence of radiation exposure observed among contaminated population is the increased incidence of thyroid cancers among subjects who were children in 1986 and who lived at that time in Belarus, Ukraine or Russia.
authors.affiliation: Université Paris-Sud, service de médecine nucléaire et cancérologie endocrinienne, Institut Gustave Roussy, 94805 Villejuif Cedex, France. martin.schlumberger@igr.fr
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schlumberger
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Le Guen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000235:genetics / Q000517:prevention & control; D047852:Chernobyl Nuclear Accident; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes / Q000633:toxicity; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000235:genetics / Q000517:prevention & control; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D058958:Organs at Risk; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D011193:Potassium Iodide / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011210:Power Plants; D051096:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret / Q000235:genetics / Q000528:radiation effects; D011832:Radiation Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D018788:Radioactive Hazard Release; D011848:Radioactive Pollutants / Q000633:toxicity; D002094:Republic of Belarus / Q000453:epidemiology; D018635:Rescue Work; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000235:genetics / Q000517:prevention & control; D014455:Ukraine / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D011848:Radioactive Pollutants; D011193:Potassium Iodide; D051096:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret; C099282:RET protein, human