Posted on 12/02/2011 6:10:49 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Fukushima: Japanese produce linked to newscaster's cancer
Date: 13 November 2011
Posted By : Special to The Canadian
A Japanese newscaster who usually reports the news, has now made the news in Japan.
Norikazu Otsuka, a Japanese TV newscaster, has been diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia and is now hospitalized, getting ready for chemo. He felt a strange lump in his neck on October 28, he says. -- Various news sources including: Zakzak 11/7/2011, Yomiuri Shinbun 11/6/2011 have also filed reports.
“In his morning program on Fuji TV he’s been promoting Fukushima produce by eating them in the show. He also happened to be in Fukushima in March 15. Just a coincidence? Never mind that ALL is predominant in small children, and an adult case is one in 100,000 annually in Japan.”
(Excerpt) Read more at agoracosmopolitan.com ...
I don’t think it can develop that fast.
This reasoning is the oldest falacy in the world, i.e., Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc.
>> I don’t think it can develop that fast.
Aggressive leukemias and lymphomas can develop VERY quickly.
The good (?) news is, the more aggressive and fast growing the cancer, the more sensitive it is to chemo and radiation.
Typically.
Cancer is somewhat an individual disease with details that vary, case to case.
This is a bit of a stretch. It’s also panic-mongering for ratings.
>> One can debate to death if this is ‘really’ due to radioactive Fukushima produce, but it is obvious that this is PR disaster for those who want to play down fallout from Fukushima accident.
An excellent, even-handed synopsis, FRiend.
It DOES make one wonder...
He has been eating it on camera for months, according to what I read. It is not just one day visit to the site.
And then, there are those of us who have worked with radioactive substances for years, and even been injected with radioisotopes... and are doing fine.
I seriously doubt he got cancer from the nuclear plant accident. If he didn’t have symptoms directly from the exposure, it’s unlikely he got enough of a dose to cause cancer. Furthermore, it takes years for cells to undergo the series of changes necessary for them to become cancerous.
Yeah, the Fukushima fireman that was repeatedly sent back to the plant to fight fires and help cool the units, for his countrymen, is dying of classic renal failure due to radiation exposure. Just retired to die a miserable death.
I am sure its perfectly safe produce for school lunches though.
/sarc
http://www.lef.org/protocols/cancer/leukemia_01.htm
Radiation. Exposure to high doses of radiation causes leukemia by inducing DNA damage through translocations (Kamada N et al 1987). Population studies show a link between radiation exposure from nuclear testing between 1951 and 1962 in the United States and the onset of leukemia (Archer VE 1987; Johnson CJ 1984). The incidence of leukemia was high in the United States in the years during and immediately after the nuclear testing. Utah showed high increases (up to five times the norm) in leukemia rates, which persisted as late as the 1980s (Archer VE 1987; Johnson CJ 1984). Exposure to radiation is linked to acute and myeloid leukemia in children (Archer VE 1987). The association between radiation exposure and leukemia was noted in survivors of the atomic bomb in Japan (Ichimaru M et al 1991) and in people who lived near the nuclear reactors in the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 (Noshchenko AG et al 2002). Leukemia caused by radiation typically appears 10 years after exposure (Tilyou SM 1990).
http://www.rerf.or.jp/radefx/late_e/leukemia.html
Excess leukemia was the earliest delayed effect of radiation exposure seen in A-bomb survivors. Japanese physician Takuso Yamawaki in Hiroshima first noted an increase of leukemia cases in his clinical practice in the late 1940s. This led to the establishment of a registry of leukemia and related disorders and to the initial reports on elevated leukemia risks published in the early 1950s. Risks for radiation-induced leukemia differ in two major respects from those for most solid cancers. First, radiation causes a larger percent increase in leukemia rates (but a smaller number of cases since leukemia is relatively rare, even in heavily exposed survivors), and second, the increase appears sooner after exposure, especially in children. The excess leukemias began appearing about two years after radiation exposure, and the excess peaked at about 6-8 years after exposure. Today, little if any excess of leukemia is occurring.
Here is a cartoon, apparently with official blessing of industry/government/media, showing kids that drinking plutonium is safe.
Given this, it does not surprise me that a news anchor would be eating Fukishima food on TV to prove it was safe.
I agree that ‘one can debate to death if this is ‘really’ due to radioactive Fukushima produce, but it is obvious that this is a PR disaster...’
I will note that exposure to radiation often suppresses immunity. This was born out in an internation report I read that had been written in 1989 that said, as an introduction to the section on illness, that ‘all diseases increased’ immediately following Chernobyl. This was stated in such an odd way that I had to go back and read it and dig a bit deeper. Elsewhere in the report the author(s) go on to say that the irradiation suppresses immunity and the region (Ukraine) affected by fallout reported increases in all illnesses normally found within a population. So this can mean that a person whose immune system was fighting the emergence of cancer is ‘suddenly’ diagnosed with it. People recovering from severe illnesses can suddenly die from it, people with mild cases of diseases can suddenly have extreme cases. In the Ukraine it was just more of every imaginable illness due to immunosuppresion.
PS: Also, in that 400plus page from the scientists and doctors who composed a comprehensive study of Chernobyl’s victims, physicians analyzing the data collected were quite surprised to discover that for every single radiation caused instance of thyroid cancer (comparing with a few years data prior to ‘accident’) there were 1000 new thyroid gland pathologies reported.
Your post quoted:The incidence of leukemia was high in the United States in the years during and immediately after the nuclear testing.
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So that quote says leukemia was high during the year and immediately after the nuclear testing which suprises me in that it indicates ‘within’ a year, leukemia was high (cancer elevated with a year of the exposure). But again, this may be the suppression of immunity resulting in a person being diagnosed with a disease that their body was initially fighting - not necessarily a ‘new’ formation of the disease within a year.
Correction: Fukushima Fireman died already.
Tepco's Leader of 'Fukushima Fifty' Resigns Due to Illness
Radiation exposure is unlikely to be the cause of Yoshida's illness, Tetsuo Ito, the head of Kinki University's Atomic Energy Research Institute, said in a phone interview. Heavy radiation exposure would bring a quick onset of acute diseases, while late-onset diseases from radiation, such as cancers, take several years to develop, Ito said.
It a National pride thing. They really don’t want to admit they have that big of a problem that they can not deal with. The elite will lose face.
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