25 years after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, children and teenagers who drank contaminated milk or ate affected cheese in the days and weeks after the explosion still suffer from an increased risk of thyroid cancer. Thyroid cancer of this nature is caused by the accumulation of radioactive iodine in the thyroid gland. These risks show no sign of declining. "Studies done in Japan after World War II suggested that the increased risks of thyroid cancer began to decline 30 years after the atomic explosions but remained above normal even 40 years later." However, thyroid cancer is mostly a nonlethal cancer and if caught early, chance of good prognosis increases greatly.
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