The first letter is a brief preliminary report from Belarus on a sudden sharp rise in the incidence
of papillary carcinoma of the thyroid among children living in the 7 administrative regions …

… (P < 0.01) and more lymph node involvement (P < 0.0001) and tended to be associated with
more distant metastases (P … tumor invasion (P = 0.004), lymph node involvement (P = 0.004), …

We reviewed histopathologically 19 cases of childhood thyroid cancer occurring between
1991 and 1994 among 14,396 screening subjects in Gomel, Republic of Belarus, the region …

Context: After severe reactor emergencies with release of radioactive iodine, elevated thyroid
cancer risk in children and adolescents is considered the main health consequence for the …

Internationale Contre Cancer (UICC)(I) and American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC)(2)
is used to classify the primary tumor in childhood thyroid carcinoma (3— 5). This …

… in childhood papillary carcinoma confined to the thyroid (Demidchik et al., unpublished data).
… In our experience, a total of 285 p.tLblood can be withdrawn successfully from a C3HIHeN …

… awaiting evacuation, according to Evgeni Kanoplya, director of … Demidchik says thyroid
tumors are highly aggressive and the … for medical treatment, but Demidchik favors home-based …

Protein-tyrosine kinases (PTKs) play a crucial role in regulating thyroid cell growth and
differentiation. It is known that PTKs are activated by ionizing radiation, but the critical pathways …

… Based on a loglinear dose–response model treating estimated dose as a continuous variable,
the trend of increasing risk with increasing dose was statistically significant (one-sided P = …

… KV Kasakov, Minister of Health of Belarus, for supporting international collaboration in
Chernobyl-related health research, Professor ER Demidchik for entrusting us with the …