Nagasaki Symposium on Chernobyl

Part 1 Russian federation: disease indices of thyroid and their dose dependence in children and adolescents affected as a result of the Chernobyl accident. Part 2 Republic of Belarus: thyroid cancer in children after the Chernobyl accident - clinical and epidemiological evaluation of 251 cases in the Republic of Belarus. Part 3 Ukraine: thyroid gland in children after the Chernobyl accident, (yesterday and today). Part 4 WHO (IPHECA): update of the WHO international programme on the health effects of the Chernobyl accident (IPHAECA). Part 5 Japan: Chernobyl Sasakawa health and medical co-operation - 1994. Part 6 WHO Europe: WHO international thyroid project. Part 7 United States: characteristics of spontaneous and radiation induced thyroid cancers in children. Part 8 United Kingdom: thyroid cancer in United Kingdom children and in children exposed to fall-out from Chernobyl. Part 9 European Community: collaboration between the radiation protection research action of CEC and the CIS on the consequences of the Chernobyl accident - emphasis on the joint health projects. Part 10 Japan: comments from Japan on Cherboby1 health studies; discussion and conclusions. Part 11 Chernobyl in the future. Part 12 WHO/hq: proposed future projects under WHO's international programme on the health effects of the Chernobyl accident (IPHAECA). Part 13 WHO Europe: WHO international thyroid project. Part 14 European Community: Chernobyl in the future - European Community project. Part 15 United States: United States co-operation with Belarus and Ukraine in the development and implementation of scientific protocols of thyroid cancer and other thyroid disease following the Chernobyl accident. Part 16 Japan: ministry foreign affairs - Japan's assistance on Chernobyl; Sasakawa foundation - Chernobyl Sasakawa health and medical co-operation project; radiation effects research foundation (RERF) - Chernobyl in the future - RERF; national institute of radiological science (NIRS) - future investigations on the health effects of the Chernobyl accident - a perspective by the National Institute of Radiological Sciences; radiation effect research association-Chernobyl in the future; Hiroshima international council for health care of the radiation-exposed (HICARE) - Chernobyl in the future; Research Institute for Nuclear Medicine and Biology, Hiroshima University, school of medicine - Chernobyl in the future; current results and future studies in 1994 - Chernobyl-related thyroid cancer in children; Nagasaki association for Hibakusha's medical care (NASHIMS) atomic disease institute Nagasaki University School of medicine - activities of atomic disease institute; WHO collaborating center for research on thyroid disease - terms of references. Part 17 Russian federation: planning of long-term radiation and epidemiological research on the basis of the Russian national medical and dosimetric registry. (Part contents).