THE MEDICAL DOSIMETRY REGISTER - DATABASE FOR MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL RADIATION RESEARCH

Early after the Chernobyl accident the All-Union Distributed Registry, (AUDR) was established in former USSR. The AUDR was indented for info rmation support of the dispensary checkups in order to render an effec tive medical treatment and for long-term radiological and epidemiologi cal monitoring of those persons exposed to radiation in order to evalu ate radiation effects on their health. After the collapse of USSR nati onal registries in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine replaced the AUDR. Sinc e 1992 in Russia the Russian National Medical Dosimetric Registry (RGM DR) is established in Obninsk near Moscow. The RGMDR is an ample datab ase,vith an expanding number of registered persons (1995: 435 276) and continuous updating by information collected in annual dispensary che ckups - an important source for an objective evaluation of the Chernob yl impact and for investigation of radiation long-term exposure to hea lth and radiogenic late-effects.