ArticleJournal of radiological protection : official journal of the Society for Radiological Protection2013
Chernobyl cleanup workers from Estonia: follow-up for cancer incidence and mortality.
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- Identifying Genomic Signatures of Positive Selection to Predict Protective Genomic Loci in the Cohort of Lithuanian Clean-Up Workers of the Chornobyl Nuclear Disaster.Current issues in molecular biology · 2023Article
- Gilbert W. Beebe Symposium on 30 Years after the Chernobyl Accident: Current and Future Studies on Radiation Health Effects.Radiation research · 2018Article
- Adjustment of lifetime risks of space radiation-induced cancer by the healthy worker effect and cancer misclassification.Heliyon · 2015Article
- Consequences of toxic disasters for rescue, recovery, and clean-up workers require integrated mental and physical health monitoring: Editorial comment for social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2015Article
- Mental health and alcohol problems among Estonian cleanup workers 24 years after the Chernobyl accident.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2015Article
- Depression, suicide ideation, and thyroid tumors among ukrainian adolescents exposed as children to chernobyl radiation.Journal of clinical medicine research · 2015Article
- Non-cancer morbidity among Estonian Chernobyl cleanup workers: a register-based cohort study.BMJ open · 2014Article
- Emotional consequences of nuclear power plant disasters.Health physics · 2014Article
- Site-specific cancer risk in the Baltic cohort of Chernobyl cleanup workers, 1986-2007.European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990) · 2013Article
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Abstract
This study examined cancer incidence (1986-2008) and mortality (1986-2011) among the Estonian Chernobyl cleanup workers in comparison with the Estonian male population. The cohort of 4810 men was followed through nationwide population, mortality and cancer registries. Cancer and death risks were measured by standardised incidence ratio (SIR) and standardised mortality ratio (SMR), respectively. Poisson regression was used to analyse the effects of year of arrival, duration of stay and time since return on cancer and death risks. The SIR for all cancers was 1.06 with 95% confidence interval 0.93-1.20 (232 cases). Elevated risks were found for cancers of the pharynx, the oesophagus and the joint category of alcohol-related sites. No clear evidence of an increased risk of thyroid cancer, leukaemia or radiation-related cancer sites combined was apparent. The SMR for all causes of death was 1.02 with 95% confidence interval 0.96-1.08 (1018 deaths). Excess mortality was observed for mouth and pharynx cancer, alcohol-related cancer sites together and suicide. Duration of stay rather than year of arrival was associated with increased mortality. Twenty-six years of follow-up of this cohort indicates no definite health effects attributable to radiation, but the elevated suicide risk has persisted.
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