Individual Dose Response and Radiation Origin of Childhood and Adolescent Thyroid Cancer in Fukushima II: Possibility of High I-131 Exposure as in Chernobyl
Individual Dose Response and Radiation Origin of Childhood and Adolescent Thyroid Cancer in Fukushima II: Possibility of High I-131 Exposure as in Chernobyl
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Discussion & Conclusion
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Comments: The manuscript thoroughly explained the results of the incidences of thyroid cancer among childhood and adolescent in Fukushima and Chernobyl, providing relevant literature. The Conclusion stated revealed a dozen-fold increase in childhood thyroid cancer cases after the Fukushima nuclear accident and showed a rise when compared to radioactive iodine exposure that occurred in Chernobyl accident.
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Comments: There are few errors found in the manuscript, which are as follows:
· Under heading “Correction of exposure dose by the baseline dose”, 2nd paragraph, 1st sentence, “To see the effect of BLD of Fukushima prefecture” must be rewritten as “To see the effect of BLD in Fukushima prefecture”.
· The word ‘Conversion’ has been misspelled as ‘Convertion’ in heading “Convertion coefficient k from the dose dependence of EAR in Fukushima and Chenobyl”.
Further comments on the paper
Comments: The manuscript illustrated the dose response radiation origin of childhood and adolescent thyroid cancer in Fukushima II. The authors described the methods involved in the study and presented a clear overview of the results. The study highlighted the comparison between the number of childhood thyroid cancer cases after the Fukushima nuclear accident and radioactive iodine exposure in Chernobyl.
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Author Info
Corresponding Author
Toshiko KatoIndependent Researcher, Nara, Japan
Article Info
Article Type
Research ArticlePublication history
Received: Fri 16, Sep 2022Accepted: Thu 29, Sep 2022
Published: Fri 21, Oct 2022
Copyright
© 2023 Toshiko Kato. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.DOI: 10.31487/j.COR.2022.04.02