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Fukushima Children Thyroid Cancer Rate Continues To Rise
Fukushima prefecture has been conducting regular checkups of over 360,000 people who were in Fukushima in March 2011 and were age 18 or under when the nuclear crisis struck. As WSJ reported in August, a study by researchers in Fukushima prefecture found 57 minors in the prefecture have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer so far and another 46 are showing symptoms that suggest they may also have the disease. Today, as The Japan Times reports, four more children are suspected of suffering from thyroid cancer in the latest survey bringing the total to 107 out of 385,000 now surveyed. This is dramatically higher than the normal "between 5 to 11 cases per million people," that Okayama University professor Toshihide Tsuda cites for national statistics between 1975 and 2008.
Four more children are suspected of suffering from thyroid cancer in the latest survey on the possible health impact of the 2011 triple meltdown at Tepco’s wrecked Fukushima No. 1 plant, sources said Tuesday.
The four, who were 6 to 17 years old at the time of the disaster, had been diagnosed as not having the cancer in the first survey that was conducted within three years of the meltdowns, they said.
The first survey covered all 370,000 children in the prefecture who were aged 18 or younger at the time of the disaster. The second survey , which began last April, covers some 385,000 children, adding those born a year after the disaster struck.
Researchers at Fukushima Medical University, which has been leading the study, will work to confirm if the four have developed the cancer and carefully study if the cases are due to the influence of radiation, according to the sources.
The university takes the results of the first survey as the basic data in assessing whether cases of the cancer may increase in the future.
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"Studies published as early as 1947 demonstrated it [the commonality of papillary child thyroid cancer], and more recently, a report has shown that nearly every thyroid gland might be found to have a cancer if examined closely enough."
Even as one lone voice spoke up...
One dissenter, Okayama University professor Toshihide Tsuda, purported that the frequency of child thyroid problems in Fukushima Prefecture is “several tens of times” higher than before the accident. He said national statistics between 1975 and 2008 showed a variance of between 5 to 11 cases per million people.
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Given the bullshit that Japan's political leaders spew day after day with no consequences, we suggest taking any 'positive' post-radiation-exposure news with a pinch of salt and remaining highly skeptical. If 'experts' can claim the Japanese economy is recovering when it enters a quadruple-dip-depression, then what hope for ivory tower nuclear scientists?
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short/poignant documentary on this nuclear matter
http://www.philiacband.com/propaganda.html
And yet the shills from General Electric and the other megacorporations that promote nuclear keep telling us how harmless and benign nuclear is! LIARS!
US Thyroid cancer where it rained after Fukushima radiation went around the world is much higher than in other regions of the US. This was already reported and covered up. If anybody bothers to do the research, you will find a perfect correlation between increase in thyroid cancer rates and places where it rained with the atmospheric models predicted the radiation from Fukushima was passing over the US and it rained.
Radiation accumulates up in the food chain and everybody who knows anything about this already knew what was going to happen.
my roomate's ex-wife makes $76 every hour on the laptop . She has been out of work for ten months but last month her income was $13335 just working on the laptop for a few hours. read... WWW.WORKS3.COM
Is she, by any chance related to
my classmate's sister-in-law, my classmate's step-mother, my classmate's sister, my neighbor's ex-wife, my neighbor's half-sister, my neighbor's aunt, my neighbor's mother, my neighbor's step-aunt, my friend's step-aunt, my friend's half-sister, my best friend's aunt, my best friend's mother-in-law, my co worker's step aunt, my roomate's mother-in-law, my buddy's mother-in-law, my buddy's step-sister?
but the gubmint sez a little radiation is good for us. any patriotic murkin would never question the gubmint
the japanese mindset is more bizare than I'd I ever imagined. it was this stubborn pride of theirs that created this catastrophy. they should have gone to the russians who have experience with this kind of thing and they would have poured mountains of cement on it immediately. now it is way too late to try to contain this and the entire world will continue to pay a bigger and bigger price.
kiss the pacific ocean goodbye. and as we all know, all the oceans of the world share the same waters.
TEPCO will wind up killing more people (and not just in Japan) than the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/20/health-thyroid-idINL4E8JK00R20120820
"People who survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as children continue to have a higher-than-normal risk of thyroid cancer more than 50 years after radiation exposure, according to a U.S. study.
Thyroid cells are particularly vulnerable to ionizing radiation, the kind produced by the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown or the atomic bombings in Japan.
The study published in the International Journal of Cancer tracked new cancer diagnoses in people who were in Japan during the bombings in 1945 and those who were not.
In total, there were 371 thyroid cancers diagnosed between 1958 and 2005 in about 105,000 atomic bomb survivors.
The study found little evidence that adults exposed to the radiation were more likely to develop thyroid cancer later on.
However, for children exposed to the radiation, the result was different. The study found 36 percent of 191 thyroid cancers in people who were children or teens at the time was likely due to radiation exposure."
It's a mad world out there. Merry fucking Christmas.
NORAD said that Santa's Sleigh diverted around Fukushima this year. Some kind of "unsafe working conditions" dispute with the reindeer union. Ukraine is still on the delivery route, but electronic counter-measures have been installed on the sleigh in addition to it's already world-class stealth capabilities.
Ummmm... Don't build nuclear reactors in the paths of tidal waves. Or on earthquake fault lines. Or below active volcanoes...
Not.
That.
Hard.
We radiated some folks.
God bless those poor people and the innocent kids; hope the Lord has some special kind of purgatory for the TEPCO and Government officials plastering over that tragedy.
It's a good thing the Japanese are building a generation of robot humanoids to replace all those kids.
I wonder what their leukemia rate is?
Hey ZH fuck your damn pop up ads without a delete area. Your taking your website down the shitter.
Firefox with Flashblock and Adblock Plus add-ons. What ads? I've never seen any. It's a rather peaceful white screen with some black and some blue text on it, actually.
fIRE FOX 34.0.5 aDBLOCK eDGE.
Don't forget " turn off the lights" features.
Dude get an Acer chromebook and load linux on it. You want bitchin. You got bitchin.
Ghostery is also helpful.
Good mention. I use both Ghostery and Ad-Block. ZH looks great with no ads on Firefox.
u can have internet, with ads, or u can have less of internet
take linux forget commercian spying software type of apple or ms$
use only ducduckgo for search
install chromium
diasble cookies and history
addblock plus is your friend.
you can fine tune everything using IP-tables (linux kind of firewall, filtering software tool).
or eat it as it is.
internet is BASED on ads, on data analysis, on data sampling, on spying your private and business behavior and selling this info to the intereseted parties, like law enforcement, odour business, clothing, travell agencies, free time and leisure, fitness corner.
What with big data and even bigger television screens, reality is now what we say it is, not what we discover it to be.
Hey Creepy A. Cracker thanks. I didn't know about google chrome's ad block plus and just added it on. Hope it works well.
Sad and regrettable... but not exactly the end of the world.
yet
I refuse to eat anything that comes out of the pacific or the gulf for that matter.
Is this the same Japan seeking a war with China over some birdshit-covered rocks? It is?
Gentlemen and Ladies, I suspect that 20 years from now, there won't be a Japan anymore. Just toxic rocks where an ancient culture used to be, and small groups of scattered survivors all over the world.
That ancient culture was mostly derived from the Chinese anyway.
Parts were, it's true. But regardless, it's unique in the world and worth saving, I believe.
Now here are some heros waiting to be Blankfein's Huckelberry. Lives full of meaning and purpose and motivation. Bechtel is another good name.
I wish I could remember the name and article link to a Japanese oncologist who recently stated that, in his opinion, Japanese Islands should be completely evacuated. Sorry, fellow ZHers. "Merry" or "Happy" whatever floats your boat. Not religious, myself. I will say "Good tidings and cheer," though! Here's hoping that next year will be as uneventful as 2014 was! Remember, kids, TPTB r robnume.
If all the Japanese who wanted to would evacuate to Detroit, and Cleveland and Cincinatti, it would be a big boost
to those cities. Give them all Long Stay Visas, and let them go home when the islands stop glowing in a century.
Obviously those kids weren't smiling enough.
Think Happy Thoughts... Happy Thoughts.
I realize most of the ZH crowd skip the Japan posts. But we are your future Westerners so pay attention
Long ago ZH time somewhere in the archives I posted some links to some published reports about FUKU radiation effects on children and how it was killing them fast.
I included 1 that was written in Japanese to help flush out the Japanese disinfo agents, trolls and morons. One reply was quite angry and claimed the article said that there was no notable impact on children. Apparently this disinfo agent, troll, moron or combination didn't want to acknowledge the obvious. How could one of the worst nuclear disasters, likely the worst, on the planet have 0 notable effects on children? That would be like saying no children had thyroid problems after the bombings at Hiroshima or Nagasaki. It was obvious this was a state sponsored propaganda piece published by some of the paid controlled hierarchy professional "doctors"
Well the propaganda, lies and disinfo here from the usual cast of global criminals is far worse and more advanced that in the West. And the children and masses are brainwashed from cradle to grave to comply. We are your future. Just like our economic condition is your future. Your societal condition will mirror here as well if you allow it. I already see it with your education system training kids to fear guns, trust authorities in the hierarchy and mindlessly follow orders or you will be crushed. The consequences will be dealt out in a similar fashion of overkill excess as shown in the story below where your 4 years old will end up shackled in chains for a temper tantrum
http://wvtf.org/post/child-handcuffed-and-school-policies-questioned
Now we have jail time waiting for those that speak out against the government lies with the truth. You will too eventually unless you stand up together against it
Excellent post as are your others, all of which I read carefully and with great interest. I very much appreciate the time and effort you put in to bring us here at ZH another perspective.
Thanks for all of your dedicated work.
What is gonna kill me now,,,,,Damn.....I thought It was all the drinkin and the smokin
Come on.... DUH! There has never been any doubt, that if we increase our surrounding radiation, man made or introduced naturally, we as a specie, would suffer. Radiation = nasty stuff. That said....we haven't reached a level yet, where human life isn't valuable enough to consider this point. humans......still rats. looking forward.........still rats.
http://enenews.com/
and
http://fukushima-diary.com/
For all your news related to Fukushima and also Hartford and other sites in the US, etc.
The whole Northern Hemisphere has been radiated by Fukushima.
Here's the survey I'd like to see: all cancers in all ages in all of Japan, radiating out from the core and corellated to prefuku figures.
Over here on the wet coast, (NA) our hospital cannot accept any more cancer patients for chemo, the incidents are off the charts.
In much better news even stage 4 cancer has been shown to go into remmission using 'tears', (hash oil concentrate....super strong stuff), in conjuction with immense amounts of ester C and 10,ooo IU's of liquid vit D a day, as well as some other stuff.
25x the average is not bad for the beginning.
Mother nature does not tolerate the mistakes we make.
enenews is worth watching.
5 billion bq of stronty flow into the sea every day. Pregnant women with cesium in their bellies a thousand km away...all from that amazing site;
http://fukushima-diary.com/ thanks for the link
Iori Mochizuki is an amazing guy, really. Had to leave Japan and is now somewhere in Romania I believe.
Don't know why Japan government don't treat the kids like they treated others during WWII.
That is to say beheadings, killing, torture and bury alive.
Built a nuclear reactor on a fault/tidal wave line which resulted in pollution from japan to Hawaii at the minimum and not a frigging word in the press other than "safe levels" My azzz!!!
Ya, they measured strontium in milk in Hawaii shortly before the BP playbook was initiated.
This site shows proof of how much Uranium and Plutonium were aerosolized. the answer, probably around 3000 lbs of plutonium. Some say 1 microgram of Plutonium (Pu) can kill you, but at 350 micrograms, 152 of 152 dogs were killed rapidly.
Check it out. this same site actually broke the Fukushima story on Zerohedge on 3-16-2011
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/p/uranium-aerosolized-into-atmosphe...
they are going ot need to get them some obama care
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2014/12/radiation-in-pacific-ocean-...
Real data..... radiation in Hawaii waters up 472% compared to before Fukushima.
Finally, I can get my full life-time dose of vitamin R in every serving of Malk.
They should just fluoridate their water.
ZERO FUCKING HEDGE.....#FUKUSHIMA