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Thyroid Cancer in Young People Surge Fukushima Since Nuclear Meltdown
2014-08-25 20:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The impact of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdown on the region`s young people is starting to add up. 104 of the area`s 300,000 young people who were under 18 at the time of the disaster have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, Japanese newspaper The Asahi Shinbun reported yesterday. This form of cancer has been linked to radiation exposure. But, government officials in Fukushima say they do not believe the cases of thyroid gland cancer diagnosed or suspected in the 104 young people...
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Fukushima's children at centre of debate over rates of thyroid cancer
2014-03-09 20:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When doctors found several tiny nodules on his 12-year-old daughter's thyroid gland, Toshiyuki Kamei refused to let parental fear get the better of him. The symptoms are not uncommon, and the probability that they will develop into something more serious is low. Yet Kamei can be forgiven for occasional moments of doubt: his daughter, Ayako, is one of almost 400,000 children who were living in Fukushima on 11 March 2011 the start of the world's worst nuclear accident for a quarter of a century....
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Fukushima fallout damaged thyroid glands of California babies
2013-11-19 11:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: A new study finds that radioactive Iodine from Fukushima has caused a significant increase in hypothyroidism among babies in California, 5,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean. A new study of the effects of tiny quantities of radioactive fallout from Fukushima on the health of babies born in California shows a significant excess of hypothyroidism caused by the radioactive contamination travelling 5,000 miles across the Pacific. The article will be published next week in the peer-reviewed journal Open...
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Japan: Thyroid Cancer Risk Jumps 10-fold for Fukushima Workers
2013-07-20 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Close to 10 percent of the nearly 20,000 people who have worked at Japan's wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station face an elevated risk of developing thyroid cancer, the power plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) reported Friday. TEPCO said 1,973 people employed in emergency crews involved in the clean-up since the meltdowns at the nuclear plant were exposed to enough radiation to cause potential problems, the AFP reported. Each of these emergency workers was exposed...
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ASCO '13: Onyx's Nexavar Delays Growth of Thyroid Cancer
2013-06-02 14:50:11| Logistics - Topix.net
Nexavar stalled disease progression by five months in patients with treatment-resistant, differentiated thyroid cancer, an aggressive form of the disease that has gone without new, effective therapies for 40 years.
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