Researcher: Children's cancer linked to Fukushima radiation

Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 04:00 in Health & Medicine

TOKYO (AP) -- A new study says children living near the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer at a rate 20 to 50 times that of children elsewhere, a difference the authors contend undermines the government's position that more cases have been discovered in the area only because of stringent monitoring....

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