Radiobiology > Stochastic Effects > Carcinogenesis > Evidence for Specific Cancers
Evidence for Specific Cancers
Leukemia
- Survivors of bombing attacks at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Patients who received radiation therapy for ankylosing spondylitis
Thyroid Neoplasms (malignant or benign)
- Survivors of bombing attacks at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Children have greater sensitivity than adults
- Chernobyl fallout (radioactive iodine) to downwind children in Belarus
- Children undergoing outmoded radiotherapy, such as for enlarged thymus, tinea capitus, or disease of the tonsils or nasopharynx
- Children undergoing radiation oncology for cancer
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from The Chernobyl Forum: 2003-2005. IAEA, WHO, UNDP, FAO, UNEP, UN-OCHA, UNSCEAR, World Bank |
