This publication contains up-to-date scientific information on the health effects of the Chernobyl accident, obtained from almost all the leading international and national organizations. The purpose of the Nagasaki symposium on Chernobyl was to present and discuss the available data from all over the world independent of psychological, social, economic, and political bias, and thus to make conclusions that would further medical science. To this end, the symposium consisted of two session: "Chernobyl Update" and "Chernobyl in the Future". Along with the proceedings of these two sessions, the proceedings of the Japan-NIS Chernobyl Thyroid Symposium, held in December 1993 are included in this book.
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Part 1 Russian federation: disease indices of thyroid and their dose dependence in children and adolescents affected as a result of the Chernobyl accident. Part 2 Republic of Belarus: thyroid cancer in children after the Chernobyl accident - clinical and epidemiological evaluation of 251 cases in the Republic of Belarus. Part 3 Ukraine: thyroid gland in children after the Chernobyl accident, (yesterday and today). Part 4 WHO (IPHECA): update of the WHO international programme on the health effects of the Chernobyl accident (IPHAECA). Part 5 Japan: Chernobyl Sasakawa health and medical co-operation - 1994. Part 6 WHO Europe: WHO international thyroid project. Part 7 United States: characteristics of spontaneous and radiation induced thyroid cancers in children. Part 8 United Kingdom: thyroid cancer in United Kingdom children and in children exposed to fall-out from Chernobyl. Part 9 European Community: collaboration between the radiation protection research action of CEC and the CIS on the consequences of the Chernobyl accident - emphasis on the joint health projects. Part 10 Japan: comments from Japan on Cherboby1 health studies; discussion and conclusions. Part 11 Chernobyl in the future. Part 12 WHO/hq: proposed future projects under WHO's international programme on the health effects of the Chernobyl accident (IPHAECA). Part 13 WHO Europe: WHO international thyroid project. Part 14 European Community: Chernobyl in the future - European Community project. Part 15 United States: United States co-operation with Belarus and Ukraine in the development and implementation of scientific protocols of thyroid cancer and other thyroid disease following the Chernobyl accident. Part 16 Japan: ministry foreign affairs - Japan's assistance on Chernobyl; Sasakawa foundation - Chernobyl Sasakawa health and medical co-operation project; radiation effects research foundation (RERF) - Chernobyl in the future - RERF; national institute of radiological science (NIRS) - future investigations on the health effects of the Chernobyl accident - a perspective by the National Institute of Radiological Sciences; radiation effect research association-Chernobyl in the future; Hiroshima international council for health care of the radiation-exposed (HICARE) - Chernobyl in the future; Research Institute for Nuclear Medicine and Biology, Hiroshima University, school of medicine - Chernobyl in the future; current results and future studies in 1994 - Chernobyl-related thyroid cancer in children; Nagasaki association for Hibakusha's medical care (NASHIMS) atomic disease institute Nagasaki University School of medicine - activities of atomic disease institute; WHO collaborating center for research on thyroid disease - terms of references. Part 17 Russian federation: planning of long-term radiation and epidemiological research on the basis of the Russian national medical and dosimetric registry. (Part contents).
