Major Factors Affecting Incidence of Childhood Thyroid Cancer in Belarus after the Chernobyl Accident: Do Nitrates in Drinking Water Play a Role?

• Valentina M. Drozd,

  Affiliations The International fund “Help for patients with radiation-induced thyroid cancer “Arnica”, Minsk, Belarus, Department of Endocrinology, Belarusian Medical Academy for Postgraduate Education, Minsk, Belarus

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• Vladimir A. Saenko ,

  * E-mail: saenko@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Molecular Epidemiology, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, Sakamoto, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Alina V. Brenner,

  Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Vladimir Drozdovitch,

  Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Vasilii I. Pashkevich,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Hydrogeology and Hydroecology, Institute for Nature Management of the National Academy of Sciences, Minsk, Belarus

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• Anatoliy V. Kudelsky,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Hydrogeology and Hydroecology, Institute for Nature Management of the National Academy of Sciences, Minsk, Belarus

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• Yuri E. Demidchik,

  Affiliation Department of Oncology, Belarusian Medical Academy for Postgraduate Education, Minsk, Belarus

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• Igor Branovan,

  Affiliation Project Chernobyl, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

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• Nikolay Shiglik,

  Affiliation Project Chernobyl, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

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• Tatiana I. Rogounovitch,

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, Medicine and Welfare, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, Sakamoto, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Shunichi Yamashita,

  Affiliations Department of Radiation Molecular Epidemiology, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, Sakamoto, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Radiation Medical Sciences, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, Sakamoto, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Johannes Biko,

  Affiliations The International fund “Help for patients with radiation-induced thyroid cancer “Arnica”, Minsk, Belarus, Clinic and Polyclinic of Nuclear Medicine, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

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• Christoph Reiners

  Affiliations The International fund “Help for patients with radiation-induced thyroid cancer “Arnica”, Minsk, Belarus, Clinic and Polyclinic of Nuclear Medicine, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

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