Thyroid cancer link to Chernobyl radiation

Updated April 26 2018 - 6:12pm, first published 12:08am
Since the 1986 disaster, one in four thyroid cancer cases in Chernobyl has been caused by radiation.
Since the 1986 disaster, one in four thyroid cancer cases in Chernobyl has been caused by radiation.

Since the 1986 nuclear disaster at the Soviet Chernobyl reactor, one in four thyroid cancer cases has been caused by radiation in the region, UN scientists report in their first such estimate.

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