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Rapid increase in thyroid cancer in Fukushima kids – cover-up of causes 福島の子供たちに甲状腺がんが急増―その原因を隠蔽

Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Posted by Mia

http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.fr/2013/10/rapid-increase-in-thyroid-cancer-in.html

Officials in protective gear check for signs of radiation on children who are from the evacuation area near the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant in Koriyama, March 13, 2011.(Reuters / Kim Kyung-Hoon)

Image source ; http://rt.com/news/fukushima-children-thyroids-abnormalities-cancer-444/

 

Fukushima Cover-Up: Extraordinary amount of kids have thyroid cancer — Officials say NOT caused by Fukushima since Chernobyl’s cancers took 4-5 yrs to appear — Yet data shows it started soon after ’86 meltdown… number of cases still rising 25 years later

 http://enenews.com/fukushima-cover-up-extraordinarily-high-thyroid-cancer-rates-in-kids-officials-not-related-to-nuclear-disaster-since-it-took-4-or-5-years-to-show-up-after-chernobyl-yet-data-shows-it-appe
September 29th, 2013
Kyodo,, June 5, 2013: Researchers at Fukushima Medical University […] said they do not believe that the most recent cases are related to the nuclear crisis. They point out that thyroid cancer cases were not found among children hit by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident until four to five years later.

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Asahi Shimbun,

August 21, 2013:

A Fukushima prefectural government official said, “It is likely (the 44 children) developed tumours or lumps before the nuclear accident.” […] In the case of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, thyroid cancer cases started to soar four to five years later […] A number of residents have expressed strong dissatisfaction with the Fukushima prefectural government over its interpretation of the effects of radiation exposure, the accuracy of its thyroid testing and the way it discloses information.
Wikipedia::

As of August 2013, there have been more than 40 children newly diagnosed with thyroid cancer and other cancers in Fukushima prefecture as a whole, but these cancers are not attributed to radiation from Fukushima […] if Chernobyl is anything to go by the increase in thyroid cancer rates won’t begin until approximately 4–5 years after the accident.

Thyroid cancer found in 18 Fukushima children NHK WORLD English

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Hiroshima to Fukushima – Data on Fukushima

,, Eiichiro Ochiai (2014 on website but should be 2013):

“12 out of 174.000 children”

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is much higher than that seen in the Chernobyl incident

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If 15 more likely cases were taken account of, the thyroid cancer incident rate among Fukushima children would be about 7.8/100.000/year, extraordinarily a high rate. (Note: this number is still an underestimate. This number would he 21/100,0110/y if the data is more properly analysed).

The authority denies that they were caused by the radiation released from the TEPCO Daichi NPP on the basis that thyroid cancer would emerge only 4-5 years after such an incident.

However, the data on the Chernobyl incident show that thyroid cancer did show up even just one year later (see Fig. 14.4)

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Hiroshima to Fukushima – Data on Chernobyl

Eiichiro Ochiai (2014 on website but should be 2013):

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a few cases of thyroid cancer seem to have occurred almost immediately within 1 year. In children, the incidence

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has kept increasing, even after 25 years. A similar trend has been observed for the groups aged 15 years or more (Ukraine report 2011). This continuous rise suggests that radiation sources other than the short-lived I-131, such as I-129 and Cs-137 may also be involved.

In a highly contaminated area, Gomel in Belarus, the annual incidence of thyroid cancers among children 2-18 years of age in 1998 was 58 times higher than that in 1973

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See also: Japan Professor: Fukushima crisis is leading to surge in thyroid cancers… First signs of health catastrophe — NHK: Trend seen in new cancer tests is ‘suspicious’ (VIDEO)

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