Japan Professor: Fukushima crisis is leading to surge in thyroid cancers… First signs of health catastrophe 日本人科学者：甲状腺がんの増加は、様々な健康被害をもたらす最初の暗示にすぎない

Published: August 23rd, 2013 at 8:10 am ET
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NHK, Aug. 20, 2013 (Transcript): Health professionals in Northern Japan are suspicious about a trend they’re seeing after the nuclear accident there two years ago. The normal incidence rate is thyroid cancer in children is one in hundreds of thousands […] Health professionals had tested 210,000 children by the end of July. On top of the 18 minors they diagnosed [with thyroid cancer], they suspect 25 others may have the illness. Members of the panel say they can’t determine if the accident has affected the rate of cancer among children. They’ve decided to set up the team experts to look into the situation.

Le Temps (Switzerland); Summarized translation by Worldcrunch, Aug. 21, 2013: The nuclear accident of Fukushima is already leading to a surge in the number of cases of thyroid cancer, according to research being presented this week in Switzerland by Japanese scientist Toshihide Tsuda. [...] annual incidence of thyroid cancer among those 18-years-old and younger in the Fukushima area to be 157 per one million, more than 31 times superior to the national average of five per million. [... A] stronger and faster evolution than that after the Chernobyl [...] and, Tsuda believes, are only the first signs of a wider health catastrophe.

甲状腺がんが増えている。１８歳未満の甲状腺がんの発生率が百万人に１５７人となり、国内の平均率、百万人に５人の３１倍にも達している。チェルノビル事故後の甲状腺がん発生率を、大きく上回り、かつより早い速度で、増えている。日本人科学者津田俊秀氏は、この数値は、これから、様々な健康被害をもたらす最初の暗示にすぎないと、考えている。

4-month old article in the Mainichi Daily News featuring Toshihide Tsuda, April 22, 2013:  Professor Toshihide Tsuda of Okayama University, an expert on pollution investigations, says, “Although we cannot say anything for certain based on numbers from a single round of tests, this is important information for looking into the causal relationships between the spread of radioactive material (iodine-131) and the incidence of thyroid gland cancer. The regular release of information is necessary for keeping tabs on health changes.”

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Le Temps report - Google translation (click  to view)

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