Table 5.
Number of subjects in the two leukemia studies according to category and age
| Category | Belarus/Baltic/Russia/IARC study | Ukrainian-American study | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age (year) | Age (year) | |||||||
| All | <35 | 35 – 50 | >=50 | All | <35 | 35 – 50 | >=50 | |
| Victims of the accident | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Witnesses of the accident | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Military liquidators | 138 | 70 | 68 | 220 | 86 | 126 | 8 | |
| Early liquidators | 2 | 1 | 1 | 66 | 13 | 29 | 24 | |
| ChNPP personnel | 9 | 4 | 5 | |||||
| Belarusian liquidators | 189 | 63 | 82 | 44 | ||||
| Sent on mission to the ChNPP | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Sent on mission to the 30-km zone | 6 | 5 | 1 | 181 | 30 | 84 | 67 | |
| Staff of AC-605 | 12 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| Staff of Combinat | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Staff of Kurchatov’s Institute | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Mixed | 2 | 1 | 1 | 79 | 18 | 34 | 27 | |
| Total | 357 | 145 | 167 | 45 | 572 | 149 | 283 | 140 |