Hiroshima’s Ongoing Cancer Legacy: Children who survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are especially at risk for thyroid cancer, and more so than adults that survived the radiation exposure, according to a US study.
“In total, there were 371 thyroid cancers diagnosed between 1958 and 2005 in about 105,000 atomic bomb survivors,” reported Reuters.
The study, published in the International Journal of Cancer, found that 36 percent of 191 thyroid cancers in people who were children or teens at the time was likely due to radiation exposure from the bombings in 1945. via Reuters
