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ArticleJournal of radiation research2023

Comparison between external and internal doses to the thyroid after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident.

Tetsuo Ishikawa, Takashi Ohba, Arifumi Hasegawa, Keiichi Akahane, Seiji Yasumura, Kenji Kamiya, Gen Suzuki

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Tetsuo IshikawaRadiation Medical Science Center for the Fukushima Health Management Survey, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan.
Takashi OhbaDepartment of Radiological Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan.
Arifumi HasegawaDepartment of Radiation Disaster Medicine, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan.
Keiichi AkahaneNational Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Chiba 263-8555, Japan.
Seiji YasumuraRadiation Medical Science Center for the Fukushima Health Management Survey, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan.
Kenji KamiyaRadiation Medical Science Center for the Fukushima Health Management Survey, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan.
Gen SuzukiInternational University of Health and Welfare Clinic, Tochigi 324-8501, Japan.

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Ministry of the Environment
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To analyze the association between radiation dose and thyroid cancer after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident, external doses have often been used because of the difficulty to estimate internal thyroid doses individually due to the lack of human data. However, no evaluation has been made as to whether external dose is a good surrogate marker for internal thyroid dose individually. This study aimed at analyzing the relationship between external doses and internal thyroid doses estimated by recently developed methodology. For four municipalities affected by the accident, 200 individuals aged under 20 at the time of the accident per municipality were randomly selected, and their external and internal thyroid doses and their ratios were estimated individually. In a separate analysis, median and arithmetic mean values for external thyroid doses estimated for persons of 16 municipalities that included the above four were compared with those for previously estimated internal thyroid doses. The ratios of the median of internal thyroid dose to that of external thyroid dose in these 16 municipalities ranged from 0.56 to 13.8 for 15-year-old children and 0.91 to 21.1 for 1-year-old children. No consistent relationship between external and internal thyroid doses was found in all 16 municipalities. Thus, thyroid doses from both external and internal exposures should be used to analyze the association between radiation dose and thyroid cancer detection rates for persons who lived in Fukushima Prefecture at the time of the FDNPP accident. (240).

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Fukushima Nuclear AccidentRadiation MonitoringThyroid NeoplasmsAdolescentAgedChildHumansInfantJapanNuclear Power PlantsRadiation Dosageexternal doseFukushima Daiichi accidentinternal dosethyroid

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PMCPMC10036093

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