Endocrine Abstracts

Chernobyl accident was followed by numerous publications overestimating its medical consequences, where spontaneous diseases have been without sufficient reasons classified as radiogenic. Among medical consequences of the accident, cause-effect relationship between ingestion of radioiodine and thyroid cancer in patients exposed at a young age is regarded to be proven. Significant incidence increase of pediatric thyroid cancer started 4 years after the accident, coinciding with...