Endocrine Abstracts

Research objective: After the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident, there was a dramatically increase in thyroid cancer incidence in children and adolescents in Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation. The increasing incidence of thyroid cancer in last 10 years not only in former Soviet Union but also in the United States, is real medical problem. ‘Project Chernobyl’ has been established in New-York for early diagnostics of radio induced thyroid cancer among people...

Introduction: An increase in thyroid diseases after the Chernobyl, mostly due to radioactive iodine, has been scientifically recognized. It is also known the effect of nitrate on iodine metabolism: being a competitive inhibitor of sodium-iodine symporter nitrate prevents iodide uptake by the thyroid and compromises thyroid hormone synthesis.The aim of the study was to investigate the incidence of thyroid and salivary glands’ abnormalities by ultraso...