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Dr Elisabeth Cardis, Head of the IARC Radiation Group, provided greater detail: "By 2065 (i.e. in the eighty years following the accident), predictions based on these models indicate that about 16,000 cases3 of thyroid cancer and 25,000 cases of other cancers may be expected due to radiation from the accident and that about 16,000 deaths from these cancers may occur."