¹ 6 (1-4) 2004
Dear colleagues!
We dedicate this Special Issue of the International Journal of
Radiation Medicine to an extremely important problem: radiation
and psychosocial factors impact of the Chernobyl disaster and
other radiation accidents on children healths. This subject was
discussed at the 4-th international conference "Chernobyl
children - health effects and psychosocial rehabilitation (June
2-6, 2003, Kiev, Ukraine)". Scientists and physicians of
many countries, representatives of international organizations
- OCHA, UNDP, WHO, UNICEF, IAEA, ICRP, national governments of
the three most affected countries, and international and national
non-governmental organizations participated in the conference
to estimate children health damage offer exposure to ionizing
irradiation and define rehabilitation strategy.
Scientific research results have demonstrated again that the
problem originates not only from health aftermath, but has a profound
ethic aspect as regards to children. The impact Radiation damage
effects to thyroid are still actual, i.e. to estimate real risks
for cancer and non-cancer diseases related to the gland dysfunction
through out lifetime. The genome instability problem is still
open that is tightly concerned with low long-term effects for
population exposed to low irradiation doses.
Poverty of the affected people and continuous social stress determine
many of somatic and psychological indisposition problems among
the survived children in the most affected countries: the Republic
of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine. The International
Community's humanitarian position towards the Chernobyl problems
gains special actuality. It consists in defining long-time strategy
for humanitarian help for the survivors. It is extremely important
to co-ordinate actions of national, international, voluntary organizations
and all the people of good will on resolving economic, ecological,
medical and psychosocial problems of the affected children and
youth.
Editor-in-Chief Dr.
Prof. Mrs. A.I. Nyagu
Contents:
Opening address of President of Ukraine L. Kuchma at the
4th International Conference "Chernobyl Children - Health
Effects and Psychosocial Rehabilitation" 
Opening address of Vice-Minister of Ukraine on the Issues of Emergency
Situations and Population Protection from the Chernobyl Disaster
Aftermath O.G. Kapitula at the 4th International Conference "Chernobyl
children - health effects and psychosocial rehabilitation"
Opening address of Deputy-Minister of Health of Ukraine Vladimyr
V. Zagorodnij at the 4th international conference "Chernobyl
children - health effects and psychosocial rehabilitation"
Protection of children - survivors of the Chernobyl NPP
disaster is one of the most important directions in state policy
of the Republic of Belarus
V.G. Tsalko
Main cancer incidence reguliarities in cohort being exposed
to radiation in childhood
A.Ye. Prysyazhnyuk, V.G. Gristchenko, V.A. Zakordonets, M.M. Fuzik,
Ye.M. Slipenyuk, Z.P. Fedorenko, L.O. Gulak
Thyroid cancer: peculiarities of epidemiological process
in a cohort being irradiated in childhood in Republic of Belarus,
Russian Federation and Ukraine
M.M. Fuzik, A.Ye. Prysyazhnyuk, V.G. Gristchenko, V.A. Zakordonets,
Ye.M. Slipenyuk, Z.P. Fedorenko, L.O. Gulak, A.Ye. Okeanov, V.V.
Starinsky
Thyroid cancer incidence after the Chernobyl accident
in Eastern Romania
Doina Davidescu, Olga Iacob
Infant leukaemia in the Eastern Romania in relation to exposure
in utero due to the Chernobyl accident
Doina Davidescu, Olga Iacob, Ingrid Miron, Doina Georgescu
ÇThyroid cancer incidence among children of the Bryansk
region for 1981-2002
V.Ò. Doroshchenko, A.D. Proshin, G.A. Romanova, N.B. Rivkind
Effect of suppressive l-thyroxine therapy on lipid profile
of children and adolescents with thyroid carcinoma
T.A. Mityukova, L.D. Ilyina, V.M. Drozd, A.G. Mrochek
Cluster of Down's syndrome cases registered in january
1987 in Republic of Belarus as a possible effect of the Chernobyl
accident
I.O. Zatsepin, P. Verger, E. Robert-Gnansia, B. Gagniere, R.D.
Khmel, G.I. Lazjuk
Indices of neurooncologic morbidity dynamics among younger children
in Ukraine
Y.A. Orlov, A.V. Shaversky
Clinical-geneàlogical and cytogenetic peculiarties of
children born to fathers -liquidators of the Chernobyl accident
N.M. Korenev, V.I. Kovaleva, N.V. Bagatskaya
Children disabilities in Ukrainian provinces with population
survived after the Chernobyl disaster
A.V. Ipatov, E.V. Sergieni, T.G. Voitchak, T.V. Ananieva, A.Ya.
Pikush
Effects of prenatal brain irradiation as a result of the
Chernobyl accident
Nyagu A.I., Loganovsky K.N., Pott-Born R., K.N Repin V. S., Nechayev
S.Yu., Antipchuk Ye.Yu., Bomko M.A., Yuryev K.L., Petrova I.V.
Antenatal exposure following the Chernobyl accident: neuropsychiatric
aspects
S.A. Igumnov, V.V. Drozdovitch
General characterization of health in first-generation
offspring born to liquidators of the Chernobyl NPP accident consequences
A.F. Tsyb, G.N. Souchkevitch, L.I. Lyaskî, Yu.Z. Artamonova, V.V.
Navolokin, L.G. Raykina
State and dynamics of the radiation contamination of foodstuffs
for children in the Chernobyl zone of Belarus according to the
data from local radiation control centres
V.B. Nesterenko, A.N. Devoyno, A.A. Mukhlayev, I.E. Nesterenko
Epidemiology of bronchial asthma and diabetes mellitus
in children and teenagers of Ozyorsk town situated in the area
of Mayak Nuclear Plant supervision zone
I.A. Vologodskaya, A.V. Kurbatov, O.Yu. Kaminskaya
Reproductive function of women-descendants of the first
generation of "Mayak" Nuclear Plant personnel
A.V. Kurbatov, I.A. Vologodskaya, A.V. Henkel, I.A. Ponomareva
Mussel concentrate “Bipolan” and its effect on the lipid
metabolism on radiation injuries
O.E. Bityutskaya, D.B. Zhirko, M.M. Lukyantsov
Glutathionetransferase activity and PAH-DNA adducts in
human placenta as a risk factor for newborn in radioactively contaminated
regions
M. Obolenskaya, N. Teplyuk, L. Sasonova, V. Prima, M. Malko E.
Bondarenko, L. Didenko, V. Vit, R. Divi, M. Poirier, M. Pasanen
Peculiar form manifestation of radiation-induced genome
instability. Decrease in cell viability in capillary endothelium
in offspring of rats after a low-dose irradiation of one of the
parents
I.B. Bychkovskaya, R.P. Stepanov, R.F. Fedortseva, G.F. Palyga
Chernobyl accident consequences: the unborn children
A.M. Serdjuk, O.I. Timchenko, V.V. Elagin, O.V. Lynchak
Genetic polymorphism and average life expectancy îf exposed individuals
and their offspring
V.I. Telnov, N.V. Sotnik
How
IPHECA - who’s international programme on mitigation of the health
effects of the chernobyl accident - was launched
N.P. Napalkov
RESOLUTION
The 4th International Conference "Chernobyl Children - Health
Consequences and Psychosocial Rehabilitation"
June 2-6, 2003, Kiev, Ukraine
