Chernobyl: Message for the 21st Century

Shinji Yamashita is a Professor at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo, Japan.

Preface. Addresses. Keynote lectures. Chernobyl Sasakawa Health and Medical Cooperation Project (I. Shigematsu). Radiation accidents: medical effects and radiation protection experience (L.A. Ilyin). Reports from the five centers. Experience in providing medical assistance to patients with thyroid diseases (T.A. Kroupnik et al.). Results of the screening of children in southwestern areas of the Bryansk region from 1996 to 2000 (S.Ye. Krivenko et al.). Recent achievements of Korosten Inter-Area Medical Diagnostic Center after completion of the Chernobyl Sasakawa Health and Medical Cooperation Project: 1996-2000 (V.V. Danilyuk, A.S. Saiko, R.B. Mikhailov). Medical screening of thyroid diseases in the Gomel region, Belarus (V.S. Vorobey et al.). Thyroid diseases among children and adolescents in Kiev region 15 years after the Chernobyl accident (N.V. Nikiforova et al.). Overview of thyroid diseases around Chernobyl. Thyroid cancer in Belarus (E.P. Demidchik et al.). Summary of the 15-year observation of thyroid cancer among Ukrainian children after the Chernobyl accident (N.D. Tronko et al.). Risk of radiogenic thyroid cancer in the population of the Bryansk and Oryol regions of Russia after the Chernobyl accident (1991-1998) (V.K. Ivanov et al.). Comments: lessons from the international collaboration (S. Nagataki). The new Chernobyl Sasakawa projects. Joint Belarus/Russia/EU/IARC/SMHF case-control studies of thyroid cancer in young people following the Chernobyl accident (E. Cardis et al.). I-129 and I-131 ground deposition densities are correlated in Belarussian settlements contaminated following the Chernobyl accident (M. Hoshi et al.). A comparative study on thyroid diseases among children in Gomel region, Belarus (Y. Shibatan et al.). Post Chernobyl NIS thyroid tissue, nucleic acid and data banks and integrated research (G.A. Thomas). The World Health Organization and Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundation joint project: medical relief for children affected by the Chernobyl accident through the development and implementation of health telematics (M.N. Repacholi, N. Takamura, G.N. Souchkevitch). Summary and future scope. Comments and discussion (K. Kiikuni et al.). Sasakawa declaration in Moscow (K. Kiikuni et al.). Invited papers. Iodine nutrition in the Chernobyl area before and after the nuclear accident (L. VanMiddlesworth). Implementation of WHO's guidelines for iodine prophylaxis following nuclear accidents: Update 1999 (K. Baverstock). Thyroid diseases around Chernobyl: from autoimmune diseases to malignant tumors (F. Pacini et al.). Summary of the cytological diagnosis of childhood thyroid diseases around Chernobyl (M. Ito, S. Yamashita). Gene rearrangements in thyroid carcinomas after irradiation during childhood: lessons from the Chernobyl reactor accident (H.M. Rabes). Ten-year Chernobyl aid programmes of the Otto Hug Strahleninstitut-MHM: treatment and research projects on thyroid cancer in Belarus (E. Lengfelder et al.). Results of radioactive iodine treatment in children from Belarus with advanced stages of thyroid cancer after the Chernobyl accident (Chr. Reiners et al.). Comparison of thyroid cancer incidence after the Chernobyl accident in Belarus and in Ukraine (P. Jacob et al.). Ultrasound diagnosis of radiation-induced childhood thyroid cancer in Belarus: 10 years of practical experience (V.M. Drozd et al.). Ultrasound examination of thyroid diseases in children and adults living in Tula region of Russia (V.S. Parshin et al.). Histological characterization of papillary thyroid carcinoma in children, adolescents and young adults in Russia after the Chernobyl accident (E.F. Lushnikov, A.Yu. Abrossimov). Influence of the Chernobyl accident on thyroid function and non-tumor morbidity (A.K.Cheban). Cancer incidence in Belarus after the Chernobyl accident (S.M. Polyakov et al.). Medical consequences of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident: experience of 15-year studies (V.G. Bebeshko, O.A. Bobyliova). Cancer incidence in Ukraine after the Chernobyl accident (A.Ye. Prysyazhnyuk et al.). Thyroid cancer among children and adolescents of Belarus exposed due to the Chernobyl accident: dose and risk assessment (J.E. Kenigsberg et al.). Reconstruction of thyroid dose after the Chernobyl accident (Y.I. Gavrilin, V.T. Khrouch, S.M. Shinkarev). Distribution of childhood thyroid dose among cohort members for epidemiological health study in Bryansk region (Yu.O. Konstantinov et al.). Re-evaluation of thyroid doses in Russia after the Chernobyl accident (V.F. Stepanenko et al.). Postscript. List of Participants. Author index. Keyword index.