Researchers discover atomic bomb effect results in adult-onset thyroid cancer
Friday, August 29, 2008 - 04:14
in Health & Medicine
Radiation from the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945, likely rearranged chromosomes in some survivors who later developed papillary thyroid cancer as adults, according to Japanese researchers.
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