Avariya na Chernobyl'skoy AES v 1986 g. stala samym krupnomasshtabnym radiatsionnym vozdeystviem na naselenie. Spustya 20 let posle avarii edinstvennym meditsinskim posledstviem dlya zhiteley zagryaznyennykh territoriy, svyaz' kotorogo s radiatsionnym faktorom dostoverno ustanovlena, yavlyaetsya rak shchitovidnoy zhelezy. Belgorodskaya oblast' otnositsya k chislu 11 naimenee zagryaznyennykh oblastey Rossiyskoy Federatsii. Nachinaya s 1990 g. v Belgorodskoy oblasti zaregistrirovan vysokiy rost chisla sluchaev raka shchitovidnoy zhelezy, kotoryy okazalsya blizkim k analogichnym dannym dlya naibolee zagryaznyennykh oblastey Belorussii, Rossii i Ukrainy. Takzhe otmechen sushchestvennyy rost zlokachestvennykh novoobrazovaniy drugikh lokalizatsiy, kotoryy nachal proyavlyat'sya spustya opredelennoe vremya, kharakternoe dlya razvitiya radiogennoy onkopatologii. V predlagaemoy monografii predstavlen analiz onkozabolevaemosti naseleniya Belgorodskoy oblasti za period s 1981 po 2000 gg., vklyuchaya otsenku roli ekologicheskikh faktorov, kotorye mogli okazat' vliyanie na rost onkozabolevaemosti v postchernobyl'skiy period. Kniga rasschitana na vrachey-onkologov, radiobiologov, zanimayushchimisya izucheniem onkozabolevaemosti v post-chernobyl'skiy period.