abstract: Childhood leukemia in Belarus

["Michael C. Baker" <mcbaker@LANL.GOV>]

I thought some of you might be interested in the following abstract.



Mike ... mcbaker@lanl.gov



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Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volume 40 Issue 4 (2001) pp 259-267



Childhood leukemia in Belarus before and after the Chernobyl accident: 

continued follow-up

V. N. Gapanovich, R. F. Iaroshevich, L. P. Shuvaeva, S. I. Becker, E. A. 

Nekolla, A. M. Kellerer



Abstract: Earlier assessments led to the conclusion that due to the added 

radiation after the Chernobyl accident, childhood leukemia in Belarus was 

not recognisably increased in the years 1987-1994 compared to the years 

1982-1986, i.e. the period before the accident. The present paper gives the 

data of the continued follow-up (1995-1998) which was conducted by the 

Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Minsk. In line with the 

earlier observations no increase has been identified. The incidence rates 

have been compared to the data of the newly established Belarussian 

Childhood Cancer Registry and a tentative explanation is given for apparent 

differences between the rates from our follow-up and the data reported 

earlier by the Belarussian Childhood Cancer Registry. 



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