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ArticleHealth physics2020

Uncertainties in Radiation Doses for a Case-control Study of Thyroid Cancer among Persons Exposed in Childhood to 131 I from Chernobyl Fallout.

Vladimir Drozdovitch, Ausrele Kesminiene, Monika Moissonnier, Ilya Veyalkin, Evgenia Ostroumova

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Article in Health physics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Vladimir DrozdovitchDivision of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Ausrele KesminieneInternational Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.
Monika MoissonnierInternational Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.
Ilya VeyalkinRepublican Research Center for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology, Gomel, Belarus.
Evgenia OstroumovaInternational Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.
Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer · FRRepublican Research Center for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology · BYUnited States Department of Health and Human Services · US

Funding

Intramural NIH HHS Z99 CA999999World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Uncertainties in thyroid doses due to I intake were evaluated for 2,239 subjects in a case-control study of thyroid cancer following exposure to Chernobyl fallout during childhood and adolescence carried out in contaminated regions of Belarus and Russia. Using new methodological developments that became available recently, a Monte Carlo simulation procedure was applied to calculate 1,000 alternative vectors of thyroid doses due to I intake for the study population of 2,239 subjects accounting for sources of shared and unshared errors. An overall arithmetic mean of the stochastic thyroid doses in the study was estimated to be 0.43 Gy and median dose of 0.16 Gy. The arithmetic mean and median of deterministic doses estimated previously for 1,615 of 2,239 study subjects were 0.48 Gy and 0.20 Gy, respectively. The geometric standard deviation of individual stochastic doses varied from 1.59 to 3.61 with an arithmetic mean of 1.94 and a geometric mean of 1.89 over all subjects of the study. These multiple sets of thyroid doses were used to update radiation-related thyroid cancer risks in the study population exposed to I after the Chernobyl accident.

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AdolescentCase-Control StudiesCesium RadioisotopesChernobyl Nuclear AccidentChildChild, PreschoolComputer SimulationHumansInfantInfant, NewbornIodine RadioisotopesModels, StatisticalMonte Carlo MethodNeoplasms, Radiation-InducedRadiation DosageRadiation ExposureCesium-137Cesium RadioisotopesIodine Radioisotopes

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PMID33290004
PMCPMC7728628
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