PPT-Childhood Thyroid Cancer in Russia Following the Chernobyl accident

VK Ivanov Chairman Russian Scientific Commission on Radiological Protection Medical Radiological Research Center National Radiation and Epidemiological Registry The International Workshop on . Roy Shore, . Kyoji. Furukawa, . Misa. . Imaizumi. Radiation Effects Research Foundation. shore@rerf.or.jp. Atomic Bomb Survivor Study Overview. 2. A-bomb Study Characteristics. Life Span Study. Includes >86,000 survivors of all ages at exposure, with estimated doses and long follow-up for mortality (1950-2008) and cancer incidence (1958-2009). April 26, 1986. What happened? . Timeline of the disaster. ..\. What . Happened at Chernobyl.doc. “. Compare this scenario to a game tug of war. You are pulling as hard as you possibly can but going nowhere. Then suddenly the other team lets go and you are sent flying out of control.”. What happened at Chernobyl?. In April of 1986, the cooling system in the number 4 power reactor failed.. The fuel rods were heated to over 4000 degrees . Farenheit. .. This caused a massive meltdown which caused gases to build up.. . survey. and. . thyroid. . cancer. in Fukushima . Prefecture. Peter Jacob. , Alexander . Ulanovsky. , Christian Kaiser. Department . of. Radiation . Sciences. Institute . of. Radiation . Protection. Background. On April 26, 1986, a sudden surge of power during a reactor systems test destroyed Unit 4 of the nuclear power station at Chernobyl, Ukraine, in the former Soviet Union. The accident and the fire that followed released massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment.. April 1986. https://publicintelligence.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/chernobyl.jpg. By the time the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991, they had . 17. . nuclear. power plants, with more being built. These plants provided 12.7% of all the electricity used in the Soviet Union. . The Chernobyl Disaster By: M. Mikschl P. J örg S. Demirev T. Fink T. Vassileva The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Saturday, 26 April 1986: The accident at reactor 4 occurred during an experiment to test a potential safety emergency core cooling feature. Nidal. . Younes. . MBBSc. Professor of endocrine Surgery. Jordan University Hospital. Thyroid cancer. It is the most common endocrine cancer. Thyroid cancer is the fastest increasing cancer in both men and women.. Impactful Data from a Highly Burdened Population. Principal Investigator. B Mark Evers, MD. Key Personnel. Eric B. Durbin, DrPH, MS, Project Lead. Jay Christian, PhD. Erin Haynes, PhD. John L. . Villano. Summary. . Many patients with thyroid cancer were found in the Fukushima Health Management survey and people are worried about the effects of radiation from the accident.. The global incidence of thyroid cancer has been increasing sine approximately 30 years.. Bagher. . Larijani. M.D., F.A.C.E.. Professor of . Internal . Medicine and Endocrinology . Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute. Tehran University of Medical Sciences. April , 2017. Outline. Dr Dominic Agius. Head Malta National Cancer Registry. 20. th. October, 2017. Director, Chernobyl Tissue Bank . (. www.chernobyltissuebank.com. ). gerry.thomas@imperial.ac.uk. HEALTH . EFFECTS OF . NUCLEAR . POWER . INCIDENTS – WHERE CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS COMBINE TO DRIVE BIOLOGY. Dr.Lilianne. Haj Hassan. 29/3/2016. Thyroid carcinoma. Thyroid carcinoma is uncommon . Life time risk of being diagnosed with thyroid carcinoma is less than . 1% (less than 1.5% of all adult cancers).