Comprehensive review shows rising childhood thyroid cancer linked to detection methods, not radiation exposure in Fukushima.
Shimura et al. state in the abstract of their article (1): A Comprehensive Review of the Progress and Evaluation of the Thyroid Ultrasound Examination Program, the Fukushima Health Management Survey: ,,… our results suggested that the increased incidence of childhood thyroid cancer in Fukushima Prefecture was not caused by radiation exposure, but rather by the highly sensitive detection method”
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