Thyroid cancer in the United States since accident at Chernobyl

doi:10.1136/bmj.311.7003.511a

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William Reid,
Joseph Mangano

Oncologist-haematologist Biological Therapy Institute, 357 Riverside Drive, Franklin, TN, USA
Consultant Radiation and Public Health Project, 786 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA

EDITOR,--V A Stsjazhko and colleagues' letter on childhood thyroid cancer near Chernobyl raises serious issues on a broader scale.1 If fallout from Chernobyl travelled hundreds of kilometres it seems reasonable that similar findings may occur in more distant populations.

Fallout from Chernobyl began arriving in Connecticut in the United States, 7250 km west of the reactor, about 15 days after the …