The Ukrainian-American Study of Leukemia and Related Disorders among Chornobyl Cleanup Workers from Ukraine: II. Estimation of Bone Marrow Doses

Abstract Chumak, V. V., Romanenko, A. Y., Voilleque, P. G., Bakhanova, E. V., Gudzenko, N., Hatch, M., Zablotska, L. B., Golovanov, I. A., Luckyanov, N. K., Sholom, S. V., Kryuchkov, V. P. and Bouville, A. The Ukrainian-American Study of Leukemia and Related Disorders among Chornobyl Cleanup Workers from Ukraine: II. Estimation of Bone Marrow Doses. Radiat. Res. 170, 698–710 (2008). After the accident that took place on 26 April 1986 at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, hundreds of thousands of cleanup workers were involved in emergency measures and decontamination activities. In the framework of an epidemiological study of leukemia and other related blood diseases among Ukrainian cleanup workers, individual bone marrow doses have been estimated for 572 cases and controls. Because dose records were available for only about half of the study subjects, a time-and-motion method of dose reconstruction that would be applicable to all study subjects, whether dead or alive, was developed. The doses were calcula...