but the distance of the Polish border from Chernobyl might prompt questions about whether the exposure was enough for significant risk to the thyroid. Although no increased thyroid cancer in ...

Some 5,000 people who were children and adolescents at the time of the world's worst-ever civil nuclear accident at Chernobyl, Ukraine, have so far been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and there ...

Mutant wolves roaming the deserted streets of Chernobyl appear to have developed resistance to cancer - raising hopes the findings can help scientists fight the disease in humans. A nuclear ...

It comes after a study revealed that wolf populations living in extreme conditions around Chernobyl have changed to such an extent that they’re now more resilient to cancer.

As Mary Mycio has pointed out in Slate, however, it's impossible to know how many incidents of cancer were directly caused by Chernobyl. Still, Mycio does acknowledge that a spike in thyroid ...

Sasaki Mari, head of the Chernobyl Children's Fund (CCF), has ... Ukrainian institutions with medicines needed to treat thyroid cancer. The 1986 disaster triggered the largest-ever uncontrolled ...