Chernobyl Disaster May Be Cause Of 270,000 Cancer Cases, Greenpeace

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Article Date: 18 Apr 2006 - 10:00 PDT


According to a new Greenpeace report, the full scale of the Chernobyl disaster may include 93,000 fatal cancers and over one quarter of a million cancer cases - challenging the Atomic Energy Agency Forum report which predicted just 4,000 additional cancer deaths.

Greenpeace says the new report was compiled by 52 renowned scientists and contains data that has never appeared in the English language before.

The information never published before in the English language comes from the Belarus national cancer statistics. This data predicts 270,000 cancer cases and 93,000 cancer deaths - all caused by the Chernobyl disaster.

The report also cites 60,000 additional cancer deaths in Russia and a prediction of another 140,000 deaths in Ukraine and Belarus.

The report lists the following as ongoing health consequences of the Chernobyl disaster:


-- Damage to immune systems

-- Damage to endocrine systems

-- Accelerated ageing

-- Cardiovascular illnesses

-- Blood illnesses

-- Psychological illnesses

-- Chromosomal aberrations

-- Higher fetal deformations

Click Here To See The Greenpeace Report (pdf)

Written by: Christian Nordqvist
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