A new study has confirmed a substantially increased risk of thyroid cancer among people exposed to radiation during childhood and adolescence after the Chernobyl disaster.

Mykola D Tronko, Geoffrey R Howe and others. A cohort study of thyroid cancer and other thyroid diseases after the Chernobyl accident: Thyroid cancer in Ukraine detected during first screening, JNCI, volume 98, no.13, pages 897-903, 2006.