A study shows radioactive fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident in Ukraine led to an increase in cancer cases in northern Sweden.
Researchers from the Linkoeping and Oerebro university hospitals found "a slight exposure-related increase" in total cancer incidence after the Chernobyl disaster.
It is the first study to suggest a possible increase in post-Chernobyl cancer rates outside the Soviet Union as a result of the accident.
The findings appear in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, which is published by the British Medical Association (BMA).
The world's worst civilian nuclear disaster occurred on April 26, 1986, when reactor number four at the Chernobyl plant blew up.
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