Publication : Radiation Risk Perspectives   Contents Acknowledgements Group photo Organizing Committee Preface Greeting Addresses Overview of COE program The seven projects and their achievements in 5 years that provide new post-COE concepts M. Tomonaga Keynote lectures Post-COE: World health and radiation environment S. Yamashita The first target of radiation carcinogenesis is not DNA M. Watanabe Reports from the former USSR countries Thyroid cancer in Belarus after Chernobyl P.I. Bespalchuk, Yu.E. Demidchik, E.P. Demidchik, Z.E. Gedrevich, A.P. Dubovskaya, V.A. Saenko and S. Yamashita Childhood thyroid cancer in Belarus Yu.E. Demidchik, E.P. Demidchik, V.A. Saenko, Chr. Reiners, J. Biko, S.V. Mankovskaya and S. Yamashita Radiological health effects 20 years after the Chernobyl accident: Data of the National Radiation and Epidemiological Registry V.K. Ivanov, M.A. Maksioutov, A.F. Tsyb, A.I. Gorski, S.Yu. Chekin, K.A. Tumanov and V.V. Kashcheev Thyroid gland and radiation (fundamental and applied aspects): 20 years after the Chernobyl accident M. Tronko, T. Bogdanova, I. Likhtarev, I. Komisarenko, A. Kovalenko, O. Epshtein, V. Tereshchenko, V. Shpak and L. Gulak Chornobyl: Current situation of non-cancer diseases V.G. Bebeshko, D.A. Bazyka and V. Buzunov Health conditions of the population and some outcomes of the international collaborative research programs in the Semipalatinsk region of Kazakhstan M.K. Teleuov Studies on atomic bomb survivors and related issues Late hematological effects in the atomic bomb survivors K. Tsukasaki, M. Iwanaga and M. Tomonaga Long-term health consequences of atomic bomb radiation: RERF Life Span Study K. Kodama, F. Kasagi, Y. Shimizu, N. Nishi, M. Soda, A. Suyama and T. Okubo Systematic collection of tissue specimens and molecular pathological analysis of newly diagnosed solid cancers among atomic bomb survivors W. Yasui and N. Oue Cancer risk analysis of low-dose radiation exposure S. Hwang, H.-R. Guo, W. Hsieh, J.-S. Hwang, S.-D. Lee, J.-L. Tang, T.-C. Chang, J.-D. Wang and W.P. Chang Radiation biology Concepts needed to understand potential health effects of chronic low level radiation exposures: Role of adult stem cells and modulated cell-cell communication J.E. Trosko Mechanism of radiation carcinogenesis: bigH3, COX-2 and beyond T.K. Hei, H. Zhou, Y.-C. Lien and Y. Zhao New insights on radiation-induced bystander signalling and its relationship to DNA repair K.M. Prise, S. Burdak-Rothkamm, M. Folkard, G. Kashino, C. Shao and L. Tartier Towards resolving conflicting reports of radiation induced genomic instability in populations exposed to ionizing radiation: Implications for the hibakusha W.F. Morgan and M.B. Sowa Indirect mechanisms of radiation induced genomic instability at repeat loci O. Niwa The role of telomere dysfunction in driving genomic instability S.M. Bailey, E.S. Williams and R.L. Ullrich Secretory clusterin (sCLU) is a hallmark sensor of DNA damage, cell stress, and cellular senescence: Evidence for similar regulation of sCLU expression after cellular stress and replicative senescence M. Suzuki, C. Goetz, E. Cataldo, G. Veneziano, B. Shankar, Y. Zou, J. Morales and D.A. Boothman NBS1 and MRE11 associate for responses to DNA double-strand breaks K. Komatsu, A. Antoccia, S. Sakamoto, J. Kobayashi, S. Matsuura and H. Tauchi Tissue bank and others The Chernobyl Tissue Bank, an international collaboration to investigate the relationship between the exposure to radiation in childhood and thyroid cancer G.A. Thomas, M. Tuttle and on behalf of the Collaborative Management Committee, Scientific Project Panel and Pathology and Blood Panels of the CTB Benefit and side effects of radioiodine therapy in radiation induced childhood thyroid carcinoma Chr. Reiners, J. Biko, Yu.E. Demidchik and V.M. Drozd Telemedical technologies in education: Experience of introduction and prospect of development at Gomel State Medical University, Belarus S. Zhavaranak, N. Fedartsova, N. Takamura and S. Yamashita Radiation emergency Education and training for radiation emergency medical management in Japan T. Kinugasa Reconstruction for local radiation injuries and proposed regeneration therapy for acute systemic radiation injuries S. Akita, K. Akino, A. Hirano, A. Ohtsuru and S. Yamashita Therapeutic angiogenesis by autologous transplantation of bone marrow mononuclear cells for peripheral artery disease K. Nagai, I. Matsumaru, T. Fukushima, Y. Miyazaki, H.Yamaguchi, S.Kamihira, K. Eishi and M. Tomonaga COE program review COE program review 1 Y. Sasaki COE program review 2 M. S. Sasaki Satellite Meeting Special lecture Chernobyl, radiation and thyroid cancer D. Williams Frontier techniques of radiation biology Joint research project of genetic diagnosis of papillary thyroid cancer between Semipalatinsk Medical Academy and Nagasaki University A. Kumagai, H. Namba, N. Mitsutake, A. Ohtsuru, M. Anami, T. Hayashi, M. Ito, D. Mussinov, M. Espenbetova, M. Teleuov and S. Yamashita Growth of IR-induced foci and G1 checkpoint M. Yamauchi, K. Suzuki, S. Kodama and M. Watanabe Epigenetic regulations of chromatin dynamics: A role of noncoding RNAs in epigenetic activation of Drosophila Hox genes K. Nishioka and S. Hirose Telomere biology: Implications for radiation carcinogenesis S. Kodama, K. Ariyoshi, S. Watanabe, K. Shiraishi and M. Watanabe Thyroid studies RET oncogene amplification in thyroid cancer: Correlations with radiation-associated, high-grade malignancy, and genomic instability M. Nakashima, N. Takamura, H. Namba, V.A. Saenko, K. Suzuki, S. Meirmanov, T. Hayashi and I. Sekine Pathology of thyroid cancer in children and adolescents of Ukraine having been exposed as a result of the Chernobyl accident T. Bogdanova, L. Zurnadzhy, M. Tronko, H. Namba, S. Yamashita and G. Thomas Immunoexpression of MUC1 in papillary thyroid carcinoma: An association with aberrant expression of β-catenin and cyclin D1 overexpression A.Yu. Abrosimov, O.A. Shkurko, V.A. Saenko, S. Meirmanov, T.I. Rogounovitch, E.F. Lushnikov, M. Nakashima, H. Namba, N. Mitsutake and S. Yamashita Lectures by senior thyroid pathologists Culture system for studying thyroid biology S. Toda, E. Koike, S. Aoki, K. Uchihashi, N. Koike and H. Sugihara Hashimoto’s thyroiditis: Is the epithelium premalignant? V.A. LiVolsi List of participants Author index Keyword index