[Health effects in Sweden of the Chernobyl accident]

An international committee (2) which has studied the health and environmental effects of the Chernobyl accident within the borders of the former Soviet Union does not expect that any increase in cancer frequency among adults can be demonstrated epidemiologically. However, the possibility of an observable increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer and increase in juvenile leukemia could not be excluded. The statistics in Sweden is more accurate, though the radiation doses were significantly lower. It would appear to be unlikely that any changes in cancer incidence (even among children), in mental development in children, in malformations or genetic changes ascribable to the Chernobyl accident will ever be demonstrated in Sweden.