• Mykola Tronko, Kiyohiko Mabuchi, Tetiana Bogdanova, Maureen Hatch, Ilya Likhtarev, Andre Bouville, Valeriy Oliynik, Robert McConnell, Viktor Shpak, Lydia Zablotska, Valeriy Tereshchenko, Alina Brenner, and Galyna Zamotayeva.
• State Institution 'V P Komisarenko Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism', National Academy Medical Sciences Ukraine, Vyshgorodska 69, Kiev 04114, Ukraine. m.tronko@dccie.kiev.ua
• J Radiol Prot. 2012 Mar 1; 32 (1): N65-9.

AbstractAs a result of the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, millions of residents of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine were exposed to large doses of radioactive iodine isotopes, mainly I-131. The purpose of the Ukraine-American (UkrAm) and Belarus-American (BelAm) projects are to quantify the risks of thyroid cancer in the framework of a classical cohort study, comprising subjects who were aged under 18 years at the time of the accident, had direct measurements of thyroid I-131 radioactivity taken within two months after the accident, and were residents of three heavily contaminated northern regions of Ukraine (Zhitomir, Kiev, and Chernigov regions). Four two-year screening examination cycles were implemented from 1998 until 2007 to study the risks associated with thyroid cancer due to the iodine exposure caused during the Chernobyl accident. A standardised procedure of clinical examinations included: thyroid palpation, ultrasound examination, blood collection followed by a determination of thyroid hormone levels, urinary iodine content test, and fine-needle aspiration if required. Among the 110 cases of thyroid cancer diagnosed in UkrAm as the result of four screening examinations, 104 cases (94.5%) of papillary carcinomas, five cases (4.6%) of follicular carcinomas, and one case (0.9%) of medullary carcinoma were diagnosed.

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