10 more thyroid cancer cases diagnosed in Fukushima

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10 more thyroid cancer cases diagnosed in Fukushima

December 28, 2016 (Mainichi Japan)

FUKUSHIMA -- Ten more people were diagnosed with thyroid cancer as of late September this year in the second round of a health survey of Fukushima Prefecture residents, which began in April 2014, a committee overseeing the survey disclosed on Dec. 27.

The number of people confirmed to have cancer during the second round of the survey stands at 44, while the overall figure including cases detected in the first round stands at 145.

The first round of checks -- covering people aged 18 or under who were living in the prefecture at the time of the outbreak of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant -- began in 2011. The second round covers about 380,000 people, including children who were born in the year following the outbreak of the disaster. The survey's third round began in May this year.

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During a meeting of the oversight committee in Fukushima on Dec. 27, Hokuto Hoshi, deputy head of the Fukushima Medical Association, requested that the prefectural government set up a third-party organization to independently gather scientific knowledge on thyroid cancer. "Scientific discussion should be conducted independently," he said...


Read more:
http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20161228/p2a/00m/0na/008000c

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1. Be careful about thyroid cancer diagnoses

Recent studies have found that MRI, CT scans, and sonograms seriously over diagnose thyroid cancers that should not even be treated, since the treatment is far more dangerous than the cancer.

The data in a new report on thyroid cancer was stunning. From 2003 to 2007, as many as 70 percent to 80 percent of women in the United States, France, Italy and Australia who were told they had thyroid cancer and who often had their thyroids removed actually had tumors that should have been left alone.

In South Korea, the trend is more pronounced — 90 percent of women with thyroid cancer probably did not require surgery.

The same trend applied to men, but to a lesser degree. In the United States and Australia, overdiagnosis accounted for about 45 percent of thyroid cancer in men over that four-year period. The rate in France, Italy and South Korea was about 70 percent, the report concluded.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/health/got-a-thyroid-tumor-most-should-be-left-alone.html?_r=0

And:

An international panel of doctors has decided that a type of tumor that was classified as a cancer is not a cancer at all.

As a result, they have officially downgraded the condition, and thousands of patients will be spared removal of their thyroid, treatment with radioactive iodine and regular checkups for the rest of their lives, all to protect against a tumor that was never a threat.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/health/thyroid-tumor-cancer-reclassification.html

[hunter]

2. How many were caused by the nuclear accident?

How many would have occurred anyways?

Come back when you have the answer.

Personally, I have zero tolerance for Fukushima shit any more. It's disrespectful of those who died in the Tsunami, drowned, got ground up in the debris flows, and it's disrespectful to survivors who lost loved ones and everything else.

A FUCKING TSUNAMI HIT A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT. Bad things happened and it left a big expensive mess to clean up. What's the surprise?

I'd wager if we could have a god's eye view of the situation that non-radioactive crap that was spilled in the tsunami, toxic and carcinogenic chemicals that nobody is paying attention to, many with "half lives" of fucking FOREVER, will ultimately kill more people.