Impact of uncertainties in exposure assessment on estimates of thyroid cancer risk among Ukrainian children and adolescents exposed from the Chernobyl accident.
The 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant remains the most serious nuclear accident in history, and excess thyroid cancers, particularly among those exposed to releases of iodine-131 remain the best-documented sequelae. Failure to take dose-measurement error into account can lead to bia...
Main Authors: | Mark P Little, Alexander G Kukush, Sergii V Masiuk, Sergiy Shklyar, Raymond J Carroll, Jay H Lubin, Deukwoo Kwon, Alina V Brenner, Mykola D Tronko, Kiyohiko Mabuchi, Tetiana I Bogdanova, Maureen Hatch, Lydia B Zablotska, Valeriy P Tereshchenko, Evgenia Ostroumova, André C Bouville, Vladimir Drozdovitch, Mykola I Chepurny, Lina N Kovgan, Steven L Simon, Victor M Shpak, Ilya A Likhtarev |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3906013?pdf=render |
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