Abstracts accepted for the Symposium

• M. Abend, R. M. Pfeiffer, C. Ruf, M. Hatch, T. I. Bogdanova, M. D. Tronko, J. Hartmann, V. Meineke, K. Mabuchi, and A. V. Brenner. Iodine-131 dose-dependent gene expression: alterations in both normal and tumor thyroid tissue of post-Chernobyl thyroid cancers.


• K. Baverstock. What mechanisms mediate the health effects of ionising radiation?


• D. A. Bazyka, A. Ye. Prysyazhnyuk, А. Yu. Romanenko, N.АGudzenko, M. M. Fuzik. Thirty years of national and international cancer research after the Chornobyl accident in Ukraine.


• V. M. Drozd, N. Akulevich, T. Leonova, M. Lushchyk, V. Sivuda, T. Platonova, I. Shimanskaya, J. Biko , Ch. Reiners. Thyroid hypoplasia in subjects exposed in utero and in early postnatal life to ionizing radiation due to the Chernobyl fallout.


• V. M. Drozd, V. A. Saenko, A. V. Brenner, V. Drozdovitch, V. I. Pashkevich, A. V. Kudelsky, Yu. E. Demidchik, I. Branovan, N. Shiglik, T. I. Rogounovitch, S. Yamashita, J. Biko, C. Reiners. Lessons from screening research programs of radiation-induced thyroid cancer and other thyroid diseases in Belarus after the Chernobyl accident.


• V. Drozdovitch, V. Chumak, A. Kesminiene, E. Ostroumova, A. Bouville. Doses for post-Chernobyl epidemiological studies: are they reliable?


• I. Fairlie. Independent Report on Health Effects 30 Years After Chernobyl: TORCH Updated.


• M. Fridman, Yu. Demidchik, O. Krasko, S. Mankovskaya, V. Drozd, L. Danilova, L. Levin. Post-Chernobyl Radiation Exposure and Paediatric Thyroid Cancer.


• M. Hatch. Late Effects of Early Life Exposure to Chernobyl Fallout.


• J. M. Havenaar and E. J. Bromet. The 30-year mental health legacy of the Chernobyl disaster.


• V.K. Ivanov, S.Yu. Chekin, M.A. Maksioutov V.V. Kashcheev, E.V. Kochergina, K.A. Tumanov, N.V. Shchukina, O.K. Vlasov, A.M. Korelo. Cancer in Russia after the Chernobyl accident: review of radiation risks.


• H. Katayama, T. Okubo, K. Kodama and the NEWS Research Group. Epidemiological Study of Health Effects on Nuclear Emergency Workers in Fukushima (NEWS).


• F. Lesueur, F. Damiola, C. Lonjou, M. Moissonnier, G. Durand, V. Tenet, I. Malakhova, V. Masyakin, F. Le Calvez-Kelm, E. Cardis, G. Byrnes, A. Kesminiene. Contribution of DNA repair-related genetic polymorphisms to papillary thyroid carcinoma susceptibility in Belarusian children exposed to radiation


• M. Lushchyk, A. Grigorovitch, V. Sivuda, Z. Sretenskaya, L. Danilova. Long-term effects of Chernobyl nuclear fallouts on Thyroid disease incidence in Brest region of Belarus.


• Yu. E. Nikiforov. Molecular mechanisms of post-Chernobyl thyroid tumors.


• I. Vanadzins, J. Reste, N. Kurjane, T. Zvagule, N. Gabruseva, M. Eglite. Oncologic morbidity of Chernobyl accident clean-up workers from Latvia in late period after disaster.


• S. Yamashita. Health Risk Management after the Nuclear Power Plant Accident: how to apply the lessons learned from Chernobyl and Fukushima to narrow research gaps?


• L. B. Zablotska. Radiogenic risks of CLL – new evidence and a path for moving forward.