More than 200,000 children in Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia affected by the Chernobyl disaster were examined for the health effects of radiation during 1991-2001. Since 1998, SMHF is collaborating with EU, NCI (USA), WHO and 3 NIS governments to create a Chernobyl Tissue Bank. This will not only help the current sufferers for their diagnosis and treatment, but will also help us to know the health consequences, should similar accidents occur in the future.

Chernobyl: A Decade (Excerpta Medica: International Congress Series 1156), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2002
This is a summary of the first five years of Chernobyl Sasakawa Health and Medical Cooperation Project, in the form of the proceedings of the Fifth Chernobyl Sasakawa Medical Cooperation symposium held in Kiev, Ukraine in 1996. One of its appendixes is comprised of detailed statistical tables of the results of health examinations of the children in five cities/regions in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia.

Chernobyl A DECADE (PDF File, 17.5MB)

Chernobyl: Message for the 21st Century (Excerpta Medica: International Congress Series 1234), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1997
Proceedings of the Sixth Chernobyl Sasakawa Medical Cooperation Symposium held in Moscow, Russia in 2001. It reports not only the 5 centers activities after the first five-year project, but also several international collaboration activities born from the Chernobyl Sasakawa project.

Chernobyl: Message for the 21st Century (PDF File, 18.0MB)