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Drs. I. I.
Shantyr, N.V. Makarova, & E.B. Saigina of the Ministry of Extreme Accidents, St.
Petersburg, Russia (1997) report that primary cancer morbidity in 8745 men who
took part in the cleanup of Chernobyl in 1986-1990 followed since exposure to 1995 makes
no statistically significant differences with that of the male populations of Russia and
St. Petersburg. No evidence of an association between radiation dose and cancer morbidity
was observed. Professor and Chairman Emeritus T.D. Luckey, Department of Biochemistry, of the the University of Missouri School of Medicine states (1997) that an exposed population in Russia from a 1957 a tank of radioactive waste explosion which forced evacuation of 22 villages, in 10,000 people the cancer mortality rates of those receiving average doses of 49, 12, and 4 cSv were 28%, 39%, and 27% lower, respectively, than unexposed controls from the same region. Professor Emeritus, and Member of the UN
Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), of the Central
Laboratory for Radiological Protection, Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski states (1997) that
late effects were expected to occur among three categories of persons: 106 persons who
survived acute radiation sickness; several million inhabitants of contaminated regions who
received doses comparable to their average natural lifetime dose; and 600,000 to 800,000
accident recovery workers. For ten years, 14 persons have died of the 106 ARS patients
(due to car accident, lung gangrene, coronary heart disease, tuberculosis, thigh sarcoma,
etc.) not attributable to radiation exposure. Also, 3 children died due to thyroid
cancers, but it is not certain whether these three cancers, and 679 other thyroid cancers
registered until the end of 1995, were caused by Chernobyl radiation. |
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