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Fukushima disaster panel so far reports three young people have thyroid cancer
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<ASIDE class=meta_extras><TIME pubdate="" datetime="2013-02-14T00:29:40+09:00">Feb 14, 2013 </TIME>
FUKUSHIMA ? A Fukushima Prefectural Government panel said Wednesday that two people who were 18 or younger when the triple-meltdown crisis started at the Fukushima No. 1 atomic complex in March 2011 have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, bringing the total cases to three.
Reporting at a meeting on the health impact from the catastrophe, professor Shinichi Suzuki of Fukushima Medical University said it is too early to link the cases to the nuclear disaster, because it took at least four to five years for thyroid cancer to be detected after the Chernobyl meltdown calamity that started in 1986.
The three people have been doing well since undergoing surgery, according to Suzuki.
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<ASIDE class=meta_extras><TIME pubdate="" datetime="2013-02-14T00:29:40+09:00">Feb 14, 2013 </TIME>
FUKUSHIMA ? A Fukushima Prefectural Government panel said Wednesday that two people who were 18 or younger when the triple-meltdown crisis started at the Fukushima No. 1 atomic complex in March 2011 have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, bringing the total cases to three.
Reporting at a meeting on the health impact from the catastrophe, professor Shinichi Suzuki of Fukushima Medical University said it is too early to link the cases to the nuclear disaster, because it took at least four to five years for thyroid cancer to be detected after the Chernobyl meltdown calamity that started in 1986.
The three people have been doing well since undergoing surgery, according to Suzuki.
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