The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 209, Issues 4-6National Geographic Society., 2006 - Geography |
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... cancer because of it . While the radioactivity that causes thyroid cancer decayed soon after the accident , people throughout the region continue to blame a wide variety of ills on Chernobyl . CHERNOBYL 35 CHERNOBYL'S DEADLY FOOTPRINT ...
... cancer because of it . While the radioactivity that causes thyroid cancer decayed soon after the accident , people throughout the region continue to blame a wide variety of ills on Chernobyl . CHERNOBYL 35 CHERNOBYL'S DEADLY FOOTPRINT ...
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... cancer . " It was absolutely obvious it was due to Chernobyl , but it was very hard to prove , " Okeanov says . Before Chernobyl , Belarus had two or three cases a year in children under the age of 15. In 1995 there were 90 cases . To ...
... cancer . " It was absolutely obvious it was due to Chernobyl , but it was very hard to prove , " Okeanov says . Before Chernobyl , Belarus had two or three cases a year in children under the age of 15. In 1995 there were 90 cases . To ...
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... cancer , but even when he was in remission , between a hundred million and a billion cancer cells circulated in his body ( a number that doctors consider rela- tively low ) . One of the advantages of treating cancer in an early stage is ...
... cancer , but even when he was in remission , between a hundred million and a billion cancer cells circulated in his body ( a number that doctors consider rela- tively low ) . One of the advantages of treating cancer in an early stage is ...
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Inside Chernobyl 32 Twenty years after a nuclear reactor exploded blanketing | 36 |
Glen Canyon Revealed 64 A sustained drought has shriveled Lake Powell in the Southwest | 72 |
COVER U S soldiers patrol devastated Market Street in San Francisco | 120 |
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