The Ukrainian-American Study of Leukemia and Related Disorders Among Chornobyl Cleanup Workers from Ukraine: I. STUDY METHODS

Abstract Romanenko, A., Bebeshko, V., Hatch, M., Bazyka, D., Finch, S., Dyagil, I., Reiss, R., Chumak, V., Bouville, A., Gudzenko, N., Zablotska, L., Pilinskaya, M., Lyubarets, T., Bakhanova, E., Babkina, N., Trotsiuk, N., Ledoschuk, B., Belayev, Y., Dybsky, S. S., Ron, E. and Howe, G. The Ukrainian-American Study of Leukemia and Related Disorders among Chornobyl Cleanup Workers from Ukraine: I. Study Methods. Radiat. Res. 170, 691–697 (2008). There are relatively few data on the risk of leukemia among those exposed to external radiation during cleanup operations after the Chornobyl nuclear accident, and results have not been consistent. To investigate this further, we assembled a cohort of 110,645 male cleanup workers from Ukraine and identified cases of leukemia occurring during the period 1986 to 2000. Detailed interviews were conducted and individual bone marrow doses estimated using a new time-and-motion method known as RADRUE described in companion paper II. For the initial analyses we used a nested...