ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Status of factors of innate immunity in exposed people who subsequently developed cancer

About authors

1 Urals Research Center for Radiation Medicine of the Federal Medical Biological Agency, Chelyabinsk, Russia

2 Chelyabinsk State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia

3 South Ural State Medical University, Chelyabinsk, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Evgenia A. Blinova
Vorovsky, 68-А, Chelyabinsk, 454141, Russia; ur.mrcru@avonilb

About paper

Funding: the study was carried out with financial support from the Federal Medical Biological Agency of Russia within the framework of the Federal Target Program “Nuclear and Radiation Safety in 2016-2020 and until 2030” (State Contract № 11.313.21.2 of 15 June 2021).

Author contribution: Blinova EA — synthesis of primary data, analysis and discussion of the results, manuscript writing; Kotikova AI — statistical processing of primary data; Akleyev AA, Akleyev AV — study planning, manuscript editing, preparation of the final version of the article.

Compliance with ethical standards: the study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Urals Research Center for Radiation Medicine (protocol № 4 of 23 August 2022). All patients submitted the informed consent to study participation.

Received: 2022-08-26 Accepted: 2022-09-14 Published online: 2022-09-29
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