Objective
The overall objective is primarily to study the carcinogenic effects in humans after the radiation accident in the Chernobyl power plant. Combining epidemiology with mechanistic studies assessing radiation dose will provide the basis for quantification of radiation risks in particular at low doses accumulated over long periods. Other late deterministic health effects will also be studied. The overall objective is reached by a number of tasks including exploitation and improvement of routine monitoring systems (cancer & mortality registration) of cancer in Belarus, Ukraine and parts of Russia, linkage studies with routine systems to Chernobyl registers in all 3 countries, follow-up and case control studies of cancer, leukaemia, lymphoma and thyroid) in liquidators in Belarus and Russia. Several hundred thousand exposed individuals in total are on record and can be studies in detail. Dosimetric evaluation including biological dosimetry, actual measurements and dose reconstruction is an essential part of the project, both the descriptive and the case-control. The different approaches in dosimetry, the possibility of comparing findings in each of the studies to findings in routine monitoring systems, the use of common approaches in the statistical analysis and methods used for creation of risk models, and the collaboration between the research teams in the EU and the NIS, based on sound epidemiological principles give a unique opportunity to provide new information of use in radiation protection. In particular information will be given with respect to long term, low-dose exposures and population risks related to internal radiation from uptake of radioactive products contaminating the environment after accident exposures. Cancer risk will be described in relation to radiation dose for a considerable sized population, and monitoring systems will be further stimulated to comply with the future follow-up of the exposed populations. The proposed project will provide new information for future radiation protection recommendations, where today it is thus uncertain whether acute and continued exposures are of similar effectiveness at the same specified total doses; the dose rate reduction factor that is recommended by the IRCP is thus of uncertain validity. The project will be important for future long-term accident management on this population level, and secure a system of monitoring by which carcinogenic risks perceived in the population rapidly can be addressed in an unbiased way.
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Denmark
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