Ominous Thyroid Cancer Spike in Fukushima Youth
When Japan’s Fukushima reactor began to experience trouble in the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami, the world watched in growing horror as the island nation desperately tried to avoid a nuclear disaster.
Almost from the start, efforts seemed plagued with problems, in a combination of unpreparedness, poor facility maintenance and unavoidable incidents that compounded the problems at Fukushima, creating a growing radiation zone that endangered citizens, livestock and the earth itself. Now, more than two years after the horrific events of March 2011, the nation is still struggling with the fallout: quite literally, in the case of an alarming medical trend emerging among Japanese minors.
Since June of this year, six children who were minors at the time of the Fukushima disaster have beendiagnosed with thyroid cancer, which is an unusually high rate, especially when paired with a suspected 10 additional cases. 44 cases in total have been diagnosed since the start of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, though the overall baseline rate of thyroid cancer in Japanese children remains at one to two in a million.
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