Study Shows Risk Of Cancer Appears To Last For Entire Lifetime After Exposure To Radiation
From Enformable Nuclear News:
After the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the health effects of ionized radiation have become a hot topic around the globe. A new study showing that survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings have continued to show a higher-than-normal risk of thyroid cancer, over half a century after their initial exposures.
The researchers calculated that 36 percent of the 191 thyroid cancers that eventually developed in people who were kids or teens at the time of the attacks were likely due to radiation exposure.
“Thyroid cancer is one of the most radiosensitive cancers,” said Dr. Kiyohiko Mabuchi of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, who worked on the new study.