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 Proceedings of the Fifth Chernobyl Sasakawa Medical Cooperation Symposium, Kiev, Ukraine, 14-15 October 1996
Edited by
S. Yamashita, Department of Nature Medicine, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Nagasaki, Japan
Y. Shibata, Department of Epidemiology, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Nagasaki, Japan
Included in series
International Congress, 1156
Description
The Chernobyl Sasakawa Health and Medical Cooperation Project completed its 5-year health screening project at the end of April 1996,
and a total of about 160,000 children were examined in the project at the five diagnostic centers located around Chernobyl in Belarus,
Russian Federation, and Ukraine.
The results of the health screening have been separately published every year since 1992 by the respective
centers on the basis of their presentation at the Chernobyl Sasakawa Medical Cooperation Symposium. However, this volume presents the
results of the 5-year health screening at all five centers from the viewpoints of dosimetry, thyroid diseases, and hematological abnormalities.
Although
originally started in May 1991 as a humanitarian aid project in response to the request of the government of the former Soviet Union,
the project became a collaborative work shared by Belarus, the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Japan. The health screening was made uniform
in all five centers on the basis of common protocol and standardized procedures, which resulted in data of relatively high comparability.
With the exception of some liquidators, the pattern of radiation exposure caused by the Chernobyl accident is quite different from that
experienced by atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan: the episodes in the majority of people around Chernobyl are caused
by continuous exposure to low doses of radiation while the latter were characterized by a single instantaneous exposure to massive doses
of radiation.
Audience
For those with an interest in the effects of long and short term exposure to radiation in children.
Contents
Chapter headings and selected papers: Organizing Committee. Preface. Addresses. Health Status in the Ukraine After the Accident.
Health conditions of children in the Kiev region 10 years after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident: based on the results of health
examinations made by the Chernobyl Sasakawa Diagnostic Center (Kiev Regional Hospital No.2) (A.I. Avramenko). Summary of the 10-year
observation of thyroid disorders among Ukrainian children who were exposed to ionizing radiation after the Chernobyl disaster: tasks
for the future (N.D. Tronko).
Reports on the Chernobyl Sasakawa Health and Medical Cooperation Project.
Chernobyl Sasakawa Health
and Medical Cooperation Project: structure and scope (K. Kiikuni). Chernobyl Sasakawa Health and Medical Cooperation Project: materials
and methods (Y. Shibata et al.). Findings of the Chernobyl Sasakawa Health and Medical Cooperation Project: 137Cs
concentration among children around Chernobyl (V.F. Sharifov et al.).
Hematological findings of the Chernobyl Sasakawa Health
and Medical Cooperation Project
(I.V. Karevskaya et al.).
Findings of the Chernobyl Sasakawa Health and Medical Cooperation
Project: thyroid nodules and cancer
(G.D. Panasyuk et al.).
Relationship between thyroid abnormality and absorbed dose for
children living in the Chernobyl area (V.B. Masyakin et al.). Findings of the Chernobyl Sasakawa Health and Medical Cooperation
Project: abnormal thyroid echogenity and autoimmune thyroid diseases around Chernobyl (A.S. Saiko et al.).
Findings of the Chernobyl
Sasakawa Health and Medical Cooperation Project: goiter and iodine around Chernobyl (N.V. Nikiforova et al.).
Comments by
Japanese Specialists.
Comments on thyroid-related studies by the Chernobyl Sasakawa Health and Medical Cooperation Project (S. Yamashita).
Comments on the two reports from the Gomel Specialized Medical Dispensary (Y. Shibata).
Chernobyl Sasakawa Health and Medical Cooperation
Project: achievements in 5 years and future prospects
(K. Fujimura et al.).
Pediatric thyroid diseases around Chernobyl: morphological
aspects of the Chernobyl Sasakawa Health and Medical Cooperation Project (M. Ito et al.).
Role of the ret oncogene
activation in thyroid carcinoma
(T. Motomura)
Chernobyl and Japan.
Opening words
(S. Hinohara).
Radiation health effects
research in Japan (I. Shigematsu).
WHO contribution to the medical follow-up of the Chernobyl accident
(W.E. Kreisel)
Selection of
the cohort for long-term clinical follow-up and assessment of radiation risks for thyroid diseases under the joint medical research
project conducted by Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundation and MRRC of RAMS
(V.K. Ivanov et al.).
Thyroid cancer in children:
comparison among cases in Belarus, Ukraine, Japan and other countries (S. Nagataki, K. Ashizawa).
Discussion on the international thyroid
problems after the Chernobyl accident in the Ukraine: present studies and future joint projects
(S. Nagataki).
Appendix A.
Statistical
Tables.
Appendix B.
List of Participants in the Chernobyl Sasakawa Health and Medical Cooperation Project.
Appendix C.
Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundation.
Postscript. Index of Authors.
Bibliographic & ordering Information
Hardbound, 634 pages, publication date: DEC-1997
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-82800-2
ISBN-10: 0-444-82800-1
Imprint: EXCERPTA MEDICA
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