Reconstruction of individual thyroid doses to the Ukrainian subjects enrolled in the Chernobyl Tissue Bank

• Published in: Radiation protection dosimetry Vol. 156; no. 4; pp. 407 - 423
• Main Authors: Likhtarov, I., Thomas, G., Kovgan, L., Masiuk, S., Chepurny, M., Ivanova, O., Gerasymenko, V., Tronko, M., Bogdanova, T., Bouville, A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 01.10.2013
• Subjects: Adult; Chernobyl Nuclear Accident; Diet; Dosimetry; Female; Food Contamination; Geography; Humans; Iodine Radioisotopes - analysis; Male; Maternal Exposure; Middle Aged; Models, Theoretical; Pregnancy; Radiation Dosage; Radioactive Fallout; Radioactive Hazard Release; Radiometry - methods; Thyroid Gland - radiation effects; Thyroid Neoplasms - etiology; Thyroid Neoplasms - pathology; Tissue Banks; Ukraine; Ukraine

The Chernobyl Tissue Bank (CTB) is an organisation that collects and stores samples of tumoral thyroid tissue obtained from Ukrainian and Russian subjects who were treated surgically for a thyroid cancer and had been exposed to (131)I from the Chernobyl accident. By 2012, the CTB had collected speci...