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Avril 2018 / UN News

One in four thyroid cancer cases registered near Chernobyl site likely caused by radiation exposure - new UN study



A quarter of all thyroid cancer cases among patients who were children at the time of the Chernobyl accident 32 years ago, are “probably” due to high doses of radiation received during and after the event, the United Nations body reviewing the effects of atomic radiation on human health and the environment has said.

About 20,000 thyroid cancer cases were registered from 1991 to 2015 among people who were under 18 in 1986 and lived in the affected areas of the former Soviet Union, (...)

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 Nucléaire et santé