Children Near Fukushima in Japan 20-50 Times Higher Rates of Thyroid Cancer

Editado por Ivan Martínez
2015-10-10 12:13:45

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Tokyo, October 10 (RHC)-- In news from Japan, a new study says children living near the Fukushima nuclear plant during the 2011 meltdown have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer at a rate between 20 and 50 times higher than children on average. 

The report will appear in the November issue of Epidemiology.  Thyroid cancer in children is the one illness the medical world has definitively linked to radiation, based on studies following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.