Gerd Ludwig/ASA / ASA, On April 26, 1986 at 1:23 am, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power PlantÕs Reactor #4 blew up after operators botched a safety test, triggering the worldÕs worst nuclear disaster to date. Twenty years later, the long shadow of Chernobyl continues to darken lives - socially, environmentally, and physically. Lymphoma Patient Dima Pyko, 16, and his mother at the ChildrenÕs Cancer Center (Oncology and Gematology Center) in Borovlyany near Minsk. The facility was built with major international help (much of it from Austria) as a direct result of cancers occurring after the Chernobyl accident.
Richard Pasley / Stock Boston, Two nurses, one with a stethoscope, review a chart at the nurses station. They are hematology/oncology nurses. MR Medicine
Michael Freeman, Positioning masks for X-ray treatment of cancer patients, at a hospital in Hong Kong