Fukushima Children Tested for Thyroid Cancer Risk

This is the VOA Special English Health Report, , from | Japanese doctors have begun examining three hundred sixty thousand children in Fukushima Prefecture. The goal is to learn the extent to which radiation may increase their risk of thyroid cancer. Children who lived closest to the Fukushima-1 Nuclear Power Station were among the first to be tested. The earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan in March left twenty thousand