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This headline is scaremongering at its worst. >The ex-head of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant Masao Yoshida, 58, died at a Tokyo hospital of esophageal
by afreak 13y ago
This headline is scaremongering at its worst.
>The ex-head of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant Masao Yoshida, 58, died at a Tokyo hospital of esophageal cancer on July 9, 2013. Doctors have maintained repeatedly that Yoshida’s illness has had nothing to do with exposure to high doses of radiation.
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> On November 28, 2011, Yoshida was admitted to hospital, where cancer was diagnosed.
It's fortunate that the article points out that the exposure does not correlate to the incident in the first place, but I get the feeling that the headline given here is link-bait at its worst.
As far as I can tell you, you cannot get cancer six months after being exposed to a high degree of radiation. You either die shortly after a large dose or something appears years if not decades later.
Cancer is a seemingly random, yet likely event.
- RK 13y agoI just grabbed my radiobiology textbook off the shelf (Radiobiology for the Radiologist, for those keeping score). It claims that the latent period between radiation exposure and the appearance of a malignancy is years. The shortest is for leukemia, which averages 5-7 years. Solid tumors can take decades to appear. This is certainly in line with the doctors' claims.