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Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology 2018

3 Thyroid

Post-Fukushima thyroid cancer risk

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3.15 Japanese food data challenge the claimed link between Fukushima’s releases and recently observed thyroid cancer increase in Japan

G Steinhauser , M Chavez-Ortega , JW Vahlbruch

To read the full abstract: Sci Rep 2017;7:10722This paper elegantly describes how precise quantification of ingested radioactive iodine in the Japanese population was measured after the Fukushima catastrophe. The mainstay of such a detailed analysis by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare was the sequential quantification and documentation of all sources of radioactive iodine in...