Infinite Unknown

Here are the effects of the Fukushima iodine-131 ‘treatment’:

- Study: 28% Increase In Thyroid Problems In Babies Born After Fukushima in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington

- Over 44% Of Fukushima Children Have Thyroid Abnormalities

- Seven More Fukushima Children Suspected To Have Thyroid Cancer

- WHO: Fukushima Workers Had Over 10 SIEVERTS Thyroid Dose

- ‘Many People From Even Tokyo Have Thyroid Problems Already’

- Fukushima: More Then 42% of Children Have Thyroid Nodules Or Cysts (German TV Video, Nov 18, 2012):

More than 42% of 57,000 tested children have nodules or cyst, reports Dr. Suzuki who leads the examinations. In Chernobyl they found only 0.1 – 1%.

And maybe some more information on the other ‘successful’ cancer treatments:

- 75% of physicians in the world refuse chemotherapy for themselves

- US Scientists Find That Chemotherapy Boosts Cancer Growth

- Chemotherapy Backfires Causes Healthy Cells To Feed Growth Of Cancer Tumors

- Chemotherapy And Radiotherapy Make Cancer More Malignant (Video)

Alternative medicine cures cancer:

The Gerson therapy for example has an overall CURE rate of  95% for cancer and a 50% cure rate for terminal ill cancer patients.

- After Radiation Treatment Thyroid Cancer Patients Dangerously Radioactive (Huffington Post, Oct 20, 2010):

WASHINGTON — Reports of thyroid cancer patients setting off radiation alarms and contaminating hotel rooms are prompting the agency in charge of nuclear safety to consider tighter rules.

A congressional investigation made public Wednesday found that patients sent home after treatment with radioactive iodine have contaminated unsuspecting hotel guests and set off alarms on public transportation.

They’ve come into close contact with vulnerable people, including pregnant women and children, and trash from their homes has triggered radiation detectors at landfills.

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Tags: Cancer, Global News, Health, Iodine-131, Radiation, Thyroid, thyroid cancer

Related info:

- Study: 28% Increase In Thyroid Problems In Babies Born After Fukushima in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington

- Over 44% Of Fukushima Children Have Thyroid Abnormalities

- Seven More Fukushima Children Suspected To Have Thyroid Cancer

- WHO: Fukushima Workers Had Over 10 SIEVERTS Thyroid Dose

- ‘Many People From Even Tokyo Have Thyroid Problems Already’

- Fukushima: More Then 42% of Children Have Thyroid Nodules Or Cysts (German TV Video, Nov 18, 2012):

More than 42% of 57,000 tested children have nodules or cyst, reports Dr. Suzuki who leads the examinations. In Chernobyl they found only 0.1 – 1%.

Flashback:

- U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Alan Thompson Reported 1,500 MICROSIEVERTS Per Hour Thyroid Dose South Of Tokyo On March 20, 2011

- Fukushima gov’t forced to reveal children’s thyroid gland tests (The Mainichi, April 22, 2013):

FUKUSHIMA — The Fukushima Prefectural Government has been forced to reveal children’s thyroid gland tests to an NPO after earlier refusing to release the results carried out following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, it has been learned.

The prefectural government had previously insisted that making the results public would be an invasion of privacy. However, under a prefectural ordinance on the release of information to the public, the data did not qualify to be withheld, forcing the prefectural government to release it.

The data covers ultrasound tests for lumps and other abnormalities, with four levels of diagnoses. The results are listed by municipality for 38,114 children tested in the 2011 fiscal year. The data was put together in April last year by Fukushima Medical University, which is charged with conducting the tests.

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- Study: 28% Increase In Thyroid Problems In Babies Born After Fukushima in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington (ZeroHedge, April 3, 2013):

Infants are much more vulnerable to radiation than adults. And see this.However, radiation safety standards are set based on the assumption that everyone in the world is a healthy man in his 20s.

Now, a medical doctor (Janette D. Sherman, M. D.) and epidemiologist (Joseph Mangano) have released a study showing a 28% increase in thyroid problems in babies born in Hawaii and America’s West Coast after the Fukushima nuclear accident.

Janette Sherman, M.D. worked for the Atomic Energy Commission (forerunner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission) at the University of California in Berkeley, and for the U.S. Navy Radiation Defense Laboratory in San Francisco. She served on the EPA’s advisory board for 6 years, and has been an advisor to the National Cancer Institute on breast cancer. Dr. Sherman specializes in internal medicine and toxicology with an emphasis on chemicals and nuclear radiation.

Joseph J. Mangano is a public health administrator and researcher who has studied the connection between low-dose radiation exposure and subsequent risk of diseases such as cancer and damage to newborns. He has published numerous articles and letters in medical and other journals in addition to books, including Low Level Radiation and Immune System Disorders: An Atomic Era Legacy.

Their new study – published in the Open Journal of Pediatrics – is entitled “Elevated airborne beta levels in Pacific/West Coast US States and trends in hypothyroidism among newborns after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown.”

Common Dreams notes:

[The study found that] children born in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington between one week and 16 weeks after the meltdown began are 28 percent more likely to suffer from congenital hypothyroidism (CH) than were kids born in those states during the same period one year earlier.

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Tags: Alaska, Babies, California, Children, Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Hawaii, Iodine-131, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Radiation, Thyroid

- Fukushima Thyroid Examination Part 4 (Fukushima Voice, Feb 13, 2013):

The Tenth Report of Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey was released on February 13, 2013.

The Radiation Medical Science Center of Fukushima Medical University now has an English site where they have complete, official translation of the previous survey results.
http://www.fmu.ac.jp/radiationhealth/results/

However, the newly released result has not been officially translated yet.  Excerpts of the new thyroid examination result are translated into English in this article.  In addition, some critical information from the February 13, 2013 Committee meeting is included.

The thyroid examination section of the survey is shown in this link.
www.pref.fukushima.jp/imu/kenkoukanri/250213siryou2.pdf (Japanese)

It contains new thyroid examination results from April 1, 2012 through January 21, 2013, for Fiscal Year Heisei 24 (FYH24) which ends on March 31, 2013.  As of January 25, 2013, 111,546 of eligible 128,082 children underwent the examination in FYH24.  In FYH23, 38,114 of 47,766 eligible children underwent examination.  As a whole, 149,660 of 175,848 eligible children, about half of the Fukushima children, already underwent examination.

The results compiled up to January 21, 2013 revealed that 41,947 (44.2%) of 94,975 children had thyroid ultrasound abnormalities.  Together with 38,114 children (13,645 or 35.8% had thyroid ultrasound abnormalities) tested in the last half of Fiscal Year Heisei 23 (FYH23)  from October 2011 through March 2012, a total of 55,592 (41.8%) of 133,089 Fukushima children have been found to have ultrasound abnormalities.

The Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey Planning Committee revealed that 10 of 186 eligible for the secondary examination from FYH23 were suspected of having thyroid cancer as a result of the examination.  They reported that three of them were confirmed to have papillary carcinoma of thyroid gland and already had surgery.  The remaining seven have 80% chance of having cancer based on their biopsy results. These children’s identities were not revealed, including their estimated thyroid exposure dose and place of residence, citing protection of their privacy.

The ten children included 3 boys and 7 girls, and their average age was 15.  The average size of their tumor was 15 mm.

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- 7 Fukushima children with thyroid problem may have cancer for 80% of possibility (Fukushima Diary, Feb 13, 2013):

On 2/13/2013, Fukushima Diary reported additional 2 Fukushima children were diagnosed to have thyroid cancer, and 7 Fukushima children are suspected to have thyroid cancer.

(cf, 10 children with thyroid problem consist of 3 male 7 female, average age is 15 y.o, “79 times higher rate than usual” [URL 1])

From cytodiagnosis, it is 80% of possibility that those 7 Fukushima children actually have thyroid cancers.

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Mayor of a town in Fukushima Speaks at UN

YouTube Added: 04.01.2013

- Mayor: I visited Fukushima last year and Unit 4 could collapse at any time — A certainty if another big quake strikes (VIDEO) (ENENews, Jan 5, 2013):

Katsutaka Idogawa, the mayor of Futaba Town at the United Nations Human Rights Council

I visited the accident site in March […] and confirmed with my own eyes that the accident is still unfolding.

The Unit No. 4 could collapse at any time. It is certain that if another big earthquake strikes it will collapse.

Tags: Children, Contamination, Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Government, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation, Society, Thyroid

YouTube Added: 04.01.2013

Description:

Gyojun Yasuda (Jun-san to her many international friends), a Buddhist nun recently returned from Fukushima, graphically documents how children are the most tragic victims of nuclear contamination.

- A Nun’s Warning: “I just came back from Japan and Fukushima and I hear already many children start getting sick” (VIDEO) (ENENews, Jan 5, 2013):

A Nun’s Warning: Radiation Hurts Children Most

Buddhist Nun: I just came back from Japan last month so I have lots of stories of suffering from Fukushima [...]

I come from Japan. I just came back from Japan and Fukushima and I hear already many children start getting sick. Some thyroid problems. And so we have been studying what’s happened in Chernobyl, nuclear testing sites […]

Tags: Children, Fukushima, Global News, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation, Society, Thyroid

Flashback:

- U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Alan Thompson Reported 1,500 MICROSIEVERTS Per Hour Thyroid Dose South Of Tokyo On March 20, 2011

See also:

- ‘Many People From Even Tokyo Have Thyroid Problems Already’

- Fukushima: More Then 42% of Children Have Thyroid Nodules Or Cysts (German TV Video, Nov 18, 2012):

More than 42% of 57,000 tested children have nodules or cyst, reports Dr. Suzuki who leads the examinations. In Chernobyl they found only 0.1 – 1%.

- WHO: Fukushima workers had radiation dose over 10 sieverts in their thyroids (ENENews, Dec 1, 2012):

(Subscription Only) Title: High thyroid radiation doses in 178 Fukushima workers
Source: AJW by The Asahi Shimbun
Author: YURI OIWA
Date: December 01, 2012

High thyroid radiation doses in 178 Fukushima workers

[...] A forthcoming WHO report, which cites the data, says two workers had an exposure of more than 10,000 millisieverts, a level widely considered to be a lethal dose when received as full-body exposure. However, a dose of this level received in the thyroid gland alone can have an impact limited to that organ and may not cause acute symptoms. [...]

TEPCO has not published its thyroid test results directly. The company justifies this by noting that it publishes other test results instead.

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- Watch: “All who met with Fukushima’s radioactive fallout are probably to have some problem with the thyroid” — Many in Tokyo already with problems (VIDEO) (ENENews, Nov 26, 2012):

Title: Report on the “Learn from Chernobyl” tour in Japan
Source: ERF2012 (Cinema Forum Fukushima)
Date: Nov 25, 2012

Ms. Kazuko Kawai, Founder of Voices for Lively Spring (a Japan-based human rights organization and a grass-root organization): Unfortunately, I have to say many people from even Tokyo have thyroid problems already developing.

It’s not a problem only in Fukushima, but all the people who met with this radioactive fallout are probably have some problem with the thyroid.

Watch the video here

Flashback:

- U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Alan Thompson Reported 1,500 MICROSIEVERTS Per Hour Thyroid Dose South Of Tokyo On March 20, 2011

See also:

- Fukushima: More Then 42% of Children Have Thyroid Nodules Or Cysts (German TV Video, Nov 18, 2012):

More than 42% of 57,000 tested children have nodules or cyst, reports Dr. Suzuki who leads the examinations. In Chernobyl they found only 0.1 – 1%.

Tags: Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation, Thyroid, TOKYO

From the article:

“Despite parental concerns about radiation exposure, it remains difficult to say with any certainty whether the 40-percent occurrence rate is alarmingly high or not.”

- Fukushima: More Then 42% of Children Have Thyroid Nodules Or Cysts (German TV Video, Nov 18, 2012):

More than 42% of 57,000 tested children have nodules or cyst, reports Dr. Suzuki who leads the examinations. In Chernobyl they found only 0.1 – 1%.

- German: Fukushima: Bei Mehr Als 42% Der Kinder Wurden Schilddrüsenknoten Oder -Zysten Festgestellt (ZDF Video, Nov 18, 2012)

And now we can say (unlike the Asahi propaganda piece) with absolute certainty that the rate is more than alarmingly high.

And I told you to evacuate Fukushima city, Minamisoma, the entire Fukushima Pref. etc. and even Tokyo a looong time ago.

“If you don’t educate yourself now and fast, you’ll die.”
- Prof. Hayakawa of Gunma University

- Asahi: Now almost 100,000 Fukushima kids with thyroid problems, parents concerned — Whether that’s “alarmingly high” it’s difficult to say (ENENews, Nov 20, 2012):

(Subscription Only) Title: Thyroid gland tests on kids in Nagasaki to be compared with Fukushima findings
Source: Asahi
Author: YURI OIWA
Date: November 20, 2012

[...] The Fukushima prefectural government [...] survey found that 40 percent of 96,000 or so children for whom test results are available developed thyroid gland problems, such as nodules, or lumps, and cysts. [...]

Despite parental concerns about radiation exposure, it remains difficult to say with any certainty whether the 40-percent occurrence rate is alarmingly high or not. This is because no exhaustive thyroid gland tests have been done on children using highly reliable ultrasound technology.

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