Ionizing radiation and laryngeal cancer

Abstract

The cause behind the currently ever increasing number of patients presenting with laryngeal cancer lies not only in the lack of the apprehensive attitude toward oncological diseases among the medical profession but also in the changing conditions of human life and environment. As many as 165 patients suffering from laryngeal cancer of the 490 ones admitted to our clinic had undergone the influence of ionizing radiation before they were allocated to the main study group while the remaining 325 cases made up the control group. The former group included 112 firefighters of the Chernobyl disaster. It was shown that the progression rate of the disease among the patients of the main group was much higher than among those comprising the control one. A similar difference was documented in the occurrence of regional and remote metastases that were not infrequently the earliest manifestations of the disease. All the patients of the main study group were given the surgical treatment. The firefighters died within one year after the onset of the treatment due to multifocal tumours, regional and remote metastases.

Methodological aspects of evaluation of ornamental woody plants of the Magnoliophyta division according the complex of morphological signs and signs of vitality

“…Об'єднавши, наприклад, квіткові деревні рослини, у групи за ступенем декоративності, їх практичне використання у ландшафтній архітектурі та дизайні, а також садово-парковому мистецтві стає професійно більш обгрунтованим і фахово цілеспрямованішим. Очевидно, що при цьому науково зрозумілішими стають не тільки ботанічні об`єкти теологічного спрямування (Barna & Barna, 2017;Antoniv, 2017), але й сади "нової хвилі" Піта Удольфа (Solovei, 2015).…”

Demographic and onco-epidemiological situation in radioactive contaminated territory of Zhytomyr Oblast

“…The existing crisis in the ecological situation, demographic parameters, and way of life of the population of Ukraine condition the increase in the level of oncological diseases and mortality from cancer even in people of relatively young age (Domina, 2015;Antoniv et al, 2017;Wilke et al, 2018). One of the main factors of increase in the carcenogenesis is the Chornobyl nuclear power plant explosion (Brown, 2017;Cucu et al, 2018;Jargin, 2018;Seo et al, 2018).…”

“…The problematic of radioactive emissions as a result of the Chornobyl tragedy is described in a number of studies by Ukrainian, as well as foreign scientists. Particularly, study on the assessment of the demographic situation in radioactive contaminated territory of Ukraine has been conducted by Dubova & Gunko (2010), Omelyanets et al (2015); on radioactive risks of larynx cancer in patients in the territory of the Rus-sian Federation - Antoniv et al (2017); neoplasm of the thyroid in the population of contaminated regions of Ukraine -Кravchenko (2016), Tronko et al (2017); papillary thyroid cancer in children of Belgium -Michel et al (2016); meningiomas in the population of the north-east part of Romania -Cucu et al (2018); leukemia in children of Sweden -Hjalmars et al (1994).…”