Hiroshima survivors remember

Atomic bomb injuries among survivors in Hiroshima.

Leukemia in Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors.

A CAUSAL RELATION between radiation and leukemia has been well demonstrated.112 The reported cases of leukemia in people exposed to radium, 1.’I 4 1 occupational x-ray,’ I therapeutic x-ray to the thyroid region in childhood’92#{176} and possibly in utero diagnostic x-ray,2’ have been few in number. Estimates of the increased risk associated with exposure of man to radiation depend heavily upon...

High incidence of meningioma among Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors.

Since the atomic bomb explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, high incidences of leukemia, thyroid cancer and other tumors have been reported as atomic bomb-induced tumors. We investigated the incidence of meningioma among Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors. Sixty-eight patients surgically treated for meningioma who had been within 2.0 km of the hypocenter of the explosion were identified. Six hundr...

Mortality of A-bomb Survivors in Nagasaki and Hiroshima

INTRODUCTION In 1945, two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the first time in human history. Since 1945, many studies (1,2,3,4) have been performed on the effects of the atomic bomb radiation, for example, the physical damage and medical studies of the atomic bomb survivors and so on. In 1972, the Scientific Data Center for the Atomic Bomb Disaster (renamed as the Division...

Studies on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors, and their use in estimating radiation risks.

Epidemiological studies of the survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been conducted over many years. These studies have examined, inter alia, mortality and cancer incidence among the survivors. This paper summarises the form of the studies undertaken, outlines the main findings and describes how these results can be used in deriving estimates of radiation risks. In doi...