‘I Do Not Want Any Children to Develop Cancer Like Me’, a Fukushima Resident Says

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Independent filmmaker Ian Thomas Ash has uploaded to YouTube a four-part interview with a young woman from Fukushima Prefecture who has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Now 20, the interviewee was 15 years old when, following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex lost power and the ability to cool fuel in the reactors. The lack of cooling caused a series of hydrogen explosions that severely damaged four of the six reactors at the Daiichi complex.

As a result of the explosions and subsequent fires, nuclear contamination was spread over a large part of Japan's northeast. The young woman interviewed in the documentary, who wishes to remain unidentified, is one of 166 Fukushima residents who were 18 or younger at the time of the nuclear disaster who have been diagnosed with or suspected of having thyroid cancer (as of February 2016).

While some attribute the rise in cases of thyroid cancer to more rigorous screening, Ash notes that 74.5% of young people aged 18-21 as of April 1, 2014 who were living in Fukushima at the time of the nuclear accident have not yet taken part in the official thyroid ultrasound examination.

“This young woman’s reason for speaking out is to motivate the families of children who have not yet received the thyroid ultrasound examination to have their children tested,” Ash says in his introduction to the interview.

The interview has been uploaded to YouTube in four parts: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4.

The woman says according to her doctors, her cancer was caught at the right moment. Had she waited any longer, they told her, the cancer could have spread. As a result of the illness, she had part of her thyroid removed.

She will begin working in a nursery school this year, and is pained to think of any other children going through what she has endured:

I would hate if any children I taught developed cancer. To tell the truth, I do not want any children to develop cancer like me.

Ash, based in Tokyo, makes short documentaries about life in Japan after the March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.

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  • 1reader2

    That is wonderful that she is telling her story and encouraging other children and young adults to get checked. Especially since she caught her cancer at the right time.

    • VooDude

      About a quarter, to more than a third, of all of us, probably have thyroid cancer. For most people, it never causes any symptoms – something like 30 in 100,000. Modern ultrasound is being deployed to non-invasively screen for thyroid cancer, and fine-needle aspiration samples show that it is real cancer. Real cancer that, in the vast majority of cases, will cause the bearer no problems.

      Thyroids taken from people at autopsy, for those who died with no signs of thyroid problems, were examined, and about a third of people had papillary carcinomas of the thyroid. It is that common.

  • Sean Oliver

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    RE: ZERO HEDGE

    This disaster will never be “taken care of”! Especially when the facts and evidence(that would be truth) are never reported! Many errors in this article, as usual ,from those who continue the under reporting and lies about Fukushima! To get the facts, all you need to do is listen to one person, Dana Durnford! Ignore his most thorough reporting and continue in your ignorance if you will, but I suggest you get it right and stop with the BS articles! This is for anyone who really wants to do a Heroic article, with all the facts and evidence to produce a Magnificent article or series of articles or documentary about the worst nightmare ever visited upon mankind! Dana’s got the goods even if his presentations can be grating on some peoples ignorant and critical minds! Don’t be petty, listen to the message and facts and don’t judge the messenger for not being a perfect human being! You “smart” writers are the ones who are…. either stupid, bought off, or just part of the problem! Ya all gonna man up or get an honorable woman to write a good piece or two about Fukushima and etc… or what? Which one of you people aren’t going to cower to the PTB and finally do the right thing about alerting the people about Fukushima? Just as an aside, there is so much to expose and write about you could start a very good career from it! If you wanted to or actually had the balls to do it!

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t64QgmtFMPo

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IQusyulZFc

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zbQzLwA3cQ

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    http://enenews.com

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    And I can’t leave you all without a lovely song to either wake you up or not!

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Cultural_Revolution

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution_(Libya)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Theses

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    CAN YOU EVEN BELIEVE IT!

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    http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2016/03/radchick-hillary-clinton-emails-reveals.html

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp_FVqKjZQQ&feature=youtu.be&t=930

    Three years later?04/06/16 https://weather.com/news/news/nuclear-waste-leak-continues

    Hanford is way different than Fukushima by the way!

    Hanford is radioactive waste for sure, very deadly, no doubt about it! Like most all radioactive waste is!

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeMvUlxXyz8
    Maestro! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-2dzHWHFrE

    • Nevin Thompson

      Sean, if you reread the article here you may notice that there are some specialists who believe that higher rates of thyroid cancer following the Fukushima accident can be attributed to more screening, and more comprehensive screening.

      • Sean Oliver

        May day, may day, emergency! We have a no brainer here! He needs help or liquidation! I suggest liquidation! Unless it wakes up!
        If you weren’t blind to the truth or even worse, a nuclear puke apologist of some sort, you would realize how obvious it is to those who know, how retarded you are when you just parrot something like that! But I’m not surprised! Did you watch any of the videos? Read any of the articles? If you did and haven’t seen the reality then you are beyond help! A loser! Like being a loser? You must, because you so stupid! Here is one video, about an hour long! If you don’t get it after watching this, I suggest you become a candidate for a head transplant! No matter which way the operation goes, you’ll be better off! #freethorizinefordalosers!
        Try your hardest to listen and learn! Final warning!
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J2I3MBv33E
        Maestro, If you please>>
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdGlcbKwIXc
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-2dzHWHFrE
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeMvUlxXyz8
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLlLtSG7xe4
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDlx-ZUj9qs

        • VooDude

          In order to determine the actual rates of thyroid cancer, several scientists set out to gather thyroid glands from people who died (for non-thyroid-related problems, such as car accidents … anybody who died, but had thyroid problems in life, were excluded). What these scientists discovered was astounding. Anywhere from a quarter to a third of people actually had papillary carcinoma of the thyroid, which never caused them problems, and had never been diagnosed.

          ”The thyroids from 93 autopsies, performed on children, and young adults younger than age 40 years, … occult papillary carcinoma (OPC), giving a prevalence rate of 14%. The youngest affected patient was a boy aged 18 years. The prevalence rate of individuals between age 18 and 40 years was 27%. The rate appears to be rather constant in adults, although there may be a slight rise in middle age.”

          ”…100 papillary carcinomas from the whole country, there were six patients younger than age 21 years and three of them were younger than age 16 years (unpublished observation).” 6% of kids, age 21 or less

          ”In most of these studies, no correlation was found between the prevalence rate of OPC and the age of the patients. The series have not, however, included almost any children and only few young adults.”

          Franssila, Kaarle O., and H. Rubén Harach 1986. “Occult papillary carcinoma of the thyroid in children and young adults: A systemic autopsy study in Finland.” Cancer

          Before Chernobyl, before Fukushima, ”The thyroids from 101 consecutive autopsies from Finland were subserially sectioned at 2- to 3-mm intervals. From 36 thyroids, 52 foci of occult papillary carcinoma (OPC) were found, giving a prevalence rate of 35.6%, …”

          ”Apparently the great majority of the [papillary carcinoma] tumors remain small and circumscribed and even from those few tumors that grow larger, and become invasive OPCs, only a minimal proportion will ever become a clinical carcinoma. According to the study, OPC can be regarded as a normal finding which should not be treated when incidentally found. In order to avoid unnecessary operations it is suggested that incidentally found small OPCs (less than 5 mm in diameter) were called occult papillary tumor instead of carcinoma.”

          Harach, H. Rubén, Kaarle O. Franssila, and Veli‐Matti Wasenius 1985. “Occult papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. A “normal” finding in Finland. A systematic autopsy study.” Cancer

        • Nevin Thompson

          “nuclear puke”? That’s a new one. You’re not a Markov generator, by chance, are you?

      • VooDude

        Nevin, there are two papers I’d recommend for you to read. Researchers selected cadaver thyroids for autopsy (and they excluded from the study, people who had thyroid problems in life). They found that a quarter, to a third of people had thyroid cancer.

        ”The thyroids from 93 autopsies, performed on children, and young adults younger than age 40 years, … occult papillary carcinoma (OPC), giving a prevalence rate of 14%. The youngest affected patient was a boy aged 18 years. The prevalence rate of individuals between age 18 and 40 years was 27%. The rate appears to be rather constant in adults, although there may be a slight rise in middle age.”

        Franssila, Kaarle O., and H. Rubén Harach 1986. “Occult papillary carcinoma of the thyroid in children and young adults: A systemic autopsy study in Finland.” Cancer

        Before Chernobyl, before Fukushima, ”The thyroids from 101 consecutive autopsies from Finland were subserially sectioned at 2- to 3-mm intervals. From 36 thyroids, 52 foci of occult papillary carcinoma (OPC) were found, giving a prevalence rate of 35.6%, …”

        Harach, H. Rubén, Kaarle O. Franssila, and Veli‐Matti Wasenius 1985. “Occult papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. A “normal” finding in Finland. A systematic autopsy study.” Cancer

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